Elemental Series, Mixed Media Works on Deep Canvas and the Penwith Suite
"Throughout my career I have endeavoured to create images that convey maximum visual impact with minimum means, essentially within a non-figurative ethos. The word elemental has a variety of connotations, it can mean simple, uncompounded, pertaining to rudiments or to first principles, even primitive or basic. In painting terms, this could be construed as a kind of minimalism, an approach that strives not to be complicated, that perhaps, excludes extraneous or irrelevant content.
Elemental pertains also to forces and phenomena of physical nature, and to the four natural elements, earth, water, air and fire, or to any combination of these.
In this series I have used paint and a variety of other media, primarily handmade paper to create abstract, or perhaps, more accurately, abstracted images of natural phenomena, not based on specific identifiable locations, but on feelings and recollections of lived experience, but broadly analogous with the sea and the coast. For this reason, the works are not titled individually, but are simply numbered within the series for purposes of reference."