I Continue To Get Further Away From

Modern Art To Me Is Nothing More Than The Expression Of Contemporary Aims Of The Age We’re Living In. All Cultures Have Had Means And Techniques Of Expressing Their Immediate Aims – The Chinese, The Renaissance, All Cultures. The Thing That Interests Me Is That Today Painters Do Not Have To Go To A Subject Matter Outside Of Themselves. Most Modern Painters Work From A Different Source, They Work From Within.

I Continue To Get Further Away From The Usual Painter's Tools Such As Easel, Palette, Brushes, Etc. I Prefer Sticks, Trowels, Knives And Dripping Fluid Paint Or A Heavy Impasto With Sand, Broken Glass Or Other Foreign Matter Added.

Most Of The Paint I Use Is A Liquid, Flowing Kind Of Paint. The Brushes I Use Are More A Sticks Rather Than Brushes – The Brush Doesn’t Touch The Surface On The Canvas, It’s Just Above [so] I Am Able To Be More Free And To Have Greater Freedom And Move About The Canvas, With Greater Ease.

Painting Is No Problem. The Problem Is What To Do When You're Not Painting.

I Don't Work From Drawings And Colour Sketches Into A Final Painting. Painting, I Think, Today - The More Immediate, The More Direct - The Greater The Possibilities Of Making A Direct - Of Making A Statement.