Notes on Process
Changes in urban landscape Patterns in the natural world 

Remembering and observing everyday things is key to my creative process. Interweaving patterns and gestures are used to make something new. This approach yields a wide variety of imagery.  I work predominantly in monotypes and collages building up my images in layers of drawing, paint, ink and cut out paper. Papers used may be found or hand-stained, printed and torn.  Carefully chosen shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks are used to produce abstract works which encompass a variety of interests.

Examples include: 
cityscapes, street views, marks & signs;
building shapes & shadows;
arches, doorways, spaces;
settlements & traces of earlier habitation;
pre-historic rock marks, paintings and stencilled handprints;
scratches & patterns on a clay cup;
the shape & texture of ancient stele;
a drawing or indication in charcoal, iron oxide, yellow ochre;
seeing people from the window of a bus;
reading a line of verse or prose.