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The origin of recent changes in my work can also be found in a number of paintings which have begun in the landscapes of Spain, Greece and Italy and have been completed in my studio. Although landscape painting is not a central concern in itself, these works have contributed much to recent developments. In this I acknowledge the formal simplicity in the landscape of the American Regionalist Grant Wood. My work refers to painting from the Renaissance to the present and I am currently interested in a number of British and European Realists whose works combine a strong sense of tonality with other formal pictorial qualities, including Burra, Cowie, Hillier, Wadsworth, Spencer, Balthus, Cassorati, de Chirico, Hubbuch, Morandi, Schad and Scholtz. The more recent works begin to introduce a new vocabulary of his own
invention, in part based on direct experience, in part a desire to articulate
a more intuitive personal imagination in his work. The cube, sphere
and cone suggest the elusive possibility of ‘True Knowledge’
among the shifting play of perception, imagination and meaning which
his new works combine.
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• THE REBEL ANGELS • IN THE MIND'S EYE • TRUE KNOWLEDGE • BRASIL
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My
recent work includes the depiction of highly realised objects which
are carefully located in relation to one another in an invented space.
These objects are developed through the painting process beyond objective
observation. The proposal that this can create a poetic effect which
transcends the meaning or value of these objects is one of the central
concerns of twentieth-century art and I am dedicated to the renewal
fo this tradition. I have also developed a number of visual metaphors
which include invented block diagrams representing landscape and models
fo classical buildings. These are painted in high focus with a clear
directional light and strong cast shadows.
