“…a dialogue with the familiar and with repetition, with what I know rather than with an engagement seeking novelty. Through this my drive to invent is harnessed and I am given the possibility of breaking beyond the obvious and entering, touching, a personal history of memory and myth. The studio is a place to which I return with these moments of energy, line and colour. Here the drawings may wait, sit around for days, sometimes years until, again prompted by an unseen demand, I find I am impelled to repossess that moment, to reclaim a fragment of life and time. The urge and genesis for this work and the deepest reasons for it are in the actuality of being alive, having breath. The thrill of an encounter with nature, the gleam of a river glimpsed in childhood or the remembered light of a loved one’s face.”