On Bended Tree Painting

I was born in Northampton in 1965. I am doing my MA in Fine Art at Coventry University. My work as a whole is about fluidity, transformation and changing states with its basis in the natural world. My influences are: Water; especially moving water, Metals (molten) Wood (grain, knots and growth rings) and stones, crystals, and minerals (especially the correlation between microscopic images of stones and aerial views of the earth). My work is process led and the manipulation of the material is often more important than the subject matter.I often try new things in the spirit of the moment. I get completely absorbed in what I do and everything else disappears from my head and all of my plans fly out of the window and using a try it and see approach I make new discoveries. I regularly have no plan of what I am going to do, but when I hold the material, whether it is paint, glue or wood in my hands the finished piece either appears in my head (I suppose this is a plan of sorts) or I just start working instinctively until I stop, a pure reaction to the material and self expression; allowing the unconscious to manifest itself as reality. I also love to write using cliches.