My artwork of the past five years has been predominantly a response to landscape.  The landscape has been somewhat abstracted; reduced to those aspects which I feel express my response to that place at that time, or to my memories associated with a place. I consider my work to be meta-physical in a sense of going beyond the physical landscape to an aspect of its essence, and in its inseparability from my faith and world-view.

Acrylic paint on canvas has been my predominant media of choice, however I have recently begun exploring print techniques, reflecting similar ideas to those in my paintings but through a different process.

The past two years have been times of exploring new ground.  Working with oils has been a joy and a challenge.  Some landscapes have been more representational; I have revisited watercolour portraiture, assisted Bill Morton on a mural for the small country town of Nobby, and my abstracts have become colour-fields.

Audible Chroma has been a great pleasure to work on with Tim.  It has had a development period of around four years, and I have been working on the paintings specifically for over a year.  Some of the works have flowed easily, and my emotions have run high, while others have had me ploughing the depths.  There have been times of frustration working with single colours, on a larger scale, and with no “subject” as such, and other times where I soar with elation - loving the paint and loving the freedom offered by colour-fields.  Painting with, and responding to, Tim’s music has been an honour and a joy and I hope that the viewers of he Audible Chroma exhibition are in some way touched and their spirit’s lifted by the music and the art.