The Promise 1 Painting

My latest series of paintings called The Promise is the long-overdue sequel to the Rain paintings I created for my first exhibits. I started The Promise series soon after my father passed as my commitment to him to return to painting. Painting is discovery. Every time you make a mark on canvas, all sorts of possibilities open up---and all sorts of visual challenges to which you have to find solutions. When you take a brush to canvas, you never know exactly how the painting is going to come to life. My challenge is to constantly push myself and test the limits of my imagination in the hope of creating impressions that are distinctly mine. I begin on a blank canvas without a preconception of the final outcome. I allow things to develop according to my thoughts, feelings and moods and how these shift and change as my painting begins to unfold. I don't start with a colour order, but find the colours as I go. The whole business of spotting the small areas of color in the canvas, how the edges meet, how accidents are controlled----all these things still fascinate me. The colours in my paintings are juxtaposed to support and contrast. They are chosen to evoke thoughts and emotions. I don’t fear change throughout the process. Images are often altered, destroyed, erased and even returned as I feel my way to the best way to bring a painting to life.