This series of paintings represents an exploration of colour as a metaphor for other realities. In our divided world, our only protection is to become aware of the power of imagination, of a kind of poetry, which transcends human differences and brings us closer to mystery and meaning.
Intrinsic to this experience has been my long interest in the research into colour by the German philosopher, writer and scientist, J.W. Goethe. He established that colour is not split-up white light but the dynamic interaction of both light and dark. Hence darkness is not an absence of light but an active presence. The colours arise from this interactivity of light and darkness.
This interplay creates its own relationship in space as the colours advance and recede within the compositional context. Their relationship can be sensed almost musically with each nuance and shift of tone and colour being critical in determining the thematic character and balance of the whole.