Drawing is the sustaining force in my work. It informs all that I do. If I have an agenda it is to draw and through drawing to discover ideas and forms previously unknown to myself.

I never set out with an idea in mind. Ideas arrive through the process of drawing and making marks. To have a concept beforehand would surely just be making an illustration of an already known quantity. This wouldn’t interest me.

My process is one of dialogue between Romantic impulse and Classic discipline.

Most of my images begin as automatic drawing. Realization of form is brought to bear on random marks through observation and experience.

I want to invent form rather than reproduce it.