Artist's Statement and More

The Freehand Line - A Statement

My ambition is to paint each masterpiece with a swift, confident and pure, freehand line applied with a brush or fingers. 

Colour, tone, texture, mood and ambience will have all been created beforehand - and not necessarily deliberately. The challenge comes with trusting my freehand and the fact that I love painting and cannot stop. The experiments go on and on: only the constraints of time, space, and the want of further materials hold me back.

Another day, my needs are different; but always, always - the resulting image can be what the viewer sees it to be. No representation within the image is paramount or even intended.

This is an unfinished piece called 'Speeding', painted with acrylics and ink with fingers and credit cards. It awaits more work with 'the freehand line' (though of course it's all freehand anyway). 

Our SABAB exhibition in Montrose has been postponed until next March when the snow is likely to have melted and we'll all be able to transport our work and ourselves to the venue safely. Suddenly we have a little bit more time to paint!