There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind