Unveiling the World through Acrylics, Collage, and Ink
“Eyes are surer witnesses than ears”
Heraclitus (c. 535 – c. 475 BCE)
White lies, green fingers, grey matter, purple passion, golden memories—all of life can be described by a color, and all of life can be represented by color on a canvas. The fun and the addiction of painting, for me at least, is in trying to find ways to get colors to speak to each other, influence each other, argue with each other, too, and in a way that ensures the results will never be boring. And let’s not forget White. It can be an absence or a presence. I admit, I’m still working up to the discipline of white.
ABOUT ME
What you see here is just a selection of my work. I create collages that are generally around 11 by 14 ins (28 by 36 cms) in sze, and large scale works in acrylic on canvas or watercolor paper, from around 6 by 5ft (1.83 by 1.52 meters) and larger. Feel free to get in touch with any questions. See my contact details below.
“AT NIGHT I DREAM OF COLOR,”
Derek Jarman (1942 – 1994)
No one talks about color better than the late Derek Jarman does in Chroma. His childhood experience with the power of color, I can relate to (I was entranced as a child in Dublin, Ireland, with the rows of nail polish in Woolworth’s— their infinitesimal gradations of tint and hue set out on glassy shelves; transfixed by the blue color of the suitcase carried by a flustered mouse scurrying along to nowhere, attached to a broach fastened to the collar of my coat.) But Jarman went on to make a more intellectual study of color, whereas I remain committed to feeling my way toward colorful resolution in my large acrylic works and my smaller collages. Perhaps never understanding the thing I love, is the reason I find it fascinating.
