2012, Acrylic on Canvas, 12"x12". It was as recently as 1981 that psychologists Christoph Redies and Lothar Spillmann came up with a figure that demonstrated the phenomena of colour-spread, a phenomenon that throws light on how our eye/brain constructs colour. I hesitate to refer to the figure as an illusion because I can see nothing illusory…[Read more]

2012, Acrylic on Canvas, 10"x10", four stretchers joined.

2012, Acrylic on Canvas, 12"x12". Four canvases combined. I had no conscious intention of making something in the colours of a warning signal (whether natural, as in animals with highly coloured marks for warning off potential predators or artificial, as in signs on emergency vehicles or architecture for example on bridges) but I had for some…[Read more]

2012, Acrylic on Canvas, 10" x 10", four 'identical' canvases combined.

2012, Acrylic on Canvas, 10" x 10", four 'identical' 5"x5" quadrants arranged in opposition.

2012, Acrylic on Canvas, 12" x 12", four 'identical' canvases combined

2012, Acrylic on Canvas, 12" x 12", four 'identical' canvases combined

2012, Acrylic on Canvas, 12" x 12".

2012, Acrylic on Canvas, 12" x 12", four cavases combined. The eye/brain keeps looking for new patterns or meanings, the forms shifting and rearranging as a result. Fluorescent colours are overlaid with a lattice of blue and violet, each mixed with white.

2012, Acrylic on Canvas, 30"x30". Colour-layered monochrome. Yellow over Blue over Red.

Colour Monochrome, Acrylic on Canvas, 2012, 30"x30". A 30 year old obsession with layered-colour monochromes. I don't really expect anyone else to like them; I just can't help making them. I especially enjoy repeatedly making the last statement that you can make with painting. Perhaps it is a bit like exclaiming "painting is dead, long live…[Read more]

2012, Acrylic on Canvas, 12"x12", one of a serial system of 2048 possible variations gained by rotating the quadrants and/or the whole.

2012, Acrylic on Canvas, 24"x24", abstract, systems art, comprising four 'identical' canvases arranged as opposing quadrants.

2012, Acrylic on Canvas, 24"x24", abstract, systems art, comprising four 'identical' canvases arranged as opposing quadrants.

2012, Acrylic on Canvas, 24"x24", abstract painting made up of four 'identical' canvases arranged in oppostion. Each painting then becomes a quadrant of a larger whole, that is different to the sum of its parts. The process for achieving each quadrant is the same, though each individual performance varies.

2012, Acrylic on Canvas, 24"x24", four identical 12"x12" paintings arranged in opposition to form quadrants of a larger construction.

2012, Acrylic on Canvas, 24"x24", sixteen identical 6"x6" stretchers joined. Abstract, systems painting/construction: the same thing repeated sixteen times producing new forms not just repetitions. The forms shift and change, as they are constructed in the eye/brain of the viewer. It is a construction in more ways than one.