Pulse
Acrylics on canvas 765 x 610mm.

From a recent conversation, with a friend:

"I normally don't really get much from more modern visual art."

Maybe you've not previously been in the right receptive frame of mind? Often, there's not some hidden conundrum behind abstract art to worry about getting - or being able to work out. It's usually just a thing to look at. Shapes that balance - or don't. Colours that compliment - or perhaps jar with each other. Art often is 'what it is'.

People often say they see things in my abstract paintings. I tend to discourage them from trying to find other things, if they've said "Ooh, look - I can see a sort of face in that bit!". However, if that's how they try to rationalise and see it, then who am I to piss in their chips? However, I will often, whilst working on a painting, deliberately turn a painting that appears to have a horizontal division that could possibly be perceived as a horizon, to stop that association occuring.