Over the years I have studied design in many forms and in my previous life as a print maker I’d employ design principles to create images (you can take a peek here if you’d like). And creating a painting is not dissimilar to designing. You still have to consider the subject as a whole and employ similar principles based on form, colour and balance. 

Yet despite all of this implied discipline, paint has an inherent unpredictability about it, if you allow it to have it’s own way. Oil paint has a sumptuous quality to it. It’s fluidity can be both seductive and captivating. 

There’s nothing like owning an original work of art and being able to see it every day hung on your wall or displayed on a shelf. Much in the same way that nothing compares being able to create one.

That all sounds a little bombastic, doesn’t it? The undeniable truth is, I love to paint. It’s both a passion and a privilege to be able to be creative in this way.

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