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I use my work to explore issues of chance and control. Each painting begins by pouring or dripping paint onto the canvas. I have a repertoire of processes from which I then choose to roller, drip, blot, brush and scratch into the surface. My paintings document the processes by which they were made, charting the choices and corrections. They arise from the materiality of the paint, and are often subconsciously influenced by everyday moments that are filtered by my memory. The paintings have their own pace and need time to evolve. The results surprise me through using a process which is open to chance. Each painting takes place as a visual event, but is also an imaginary location into which the viewer can enter through the mind’s eye. The paintings very often suggest places in nature, recalling certain sensations, and it is through the recollection of experience of such places that the work takes place in the mind of the viewer. The final painting is the result of continual editing through making changes, additions and then taking away or covering over.