About
My Art is about collecting and rearranging. I collect text fragments, images, ideas, colours, books, songs. I rummage in Pop Culture, I make photographs as I walk around, I write down what people say. I store these things in my studio, and in my mind. Painting is tossing and turning around the pieces, measuring them against each other, looking for interesting combinations - a rider and a water buffalo, lots of cups and a large round table, three gulls and a pool and the striking blue colour of the pool. A text fragment and an image. What happens when a narrative is abstract and not comprehensitive? What happens to three side characters of different stories meeting each other? Where do they meet? And what do they say?
My paintings grow slowly. Coats of paint add a new point of view or swallow up previous ones. Constructing or deconstructing, spiraling around the core topic of a piece, seaching for the gap in the in-between, the point where the workings in a composition come to a momentary halt and the painting opens up. This is not where it should end, but it is the point where I step back and you as a viewer are invited to step in and take over, to look and see where the painting takes you.