270524_A_ColourField_V03 Artwork

I studied fine art painting in the 1980s and then went on to do a master’s degree in computer animation, since then I have been constantly involved in the television industry (mainly in the design of virtual and augmented reality) and have used my time outside work to explore my interest in time-driven art works. I look to apply elements of chance to my work. The serendipitous fracturing and distressing of images has been with me for a long time, I was buying random vinyl records, sanding them down, photographing and recording them and then inking them up to print at college and that spirit lives on. Mostly these days I write software tools to apply synchronicity and use samplers rather than audio tape and a razor blade. However, that systematic approach to deconstructing audio forms with white noise, effects pedals and re-sequencing led me back to drawing as a primary form of self-expression, but I still need barriers to obstruct the process of looking and mark making. In part I have achieved this writing software tools, but the hunt of primary source material led me back to drawing. The creation of the two halves of an image ‘on-plein-air’, the depth matte in black and white and the colour pass, gives me that excitement of never quite knowing what you until the two are combined and you render it.