Palimpsest

Lift Off

I have been developing a working practice over many years that has as its core my unstoppable desire to make things. My working life has been dedicated to encouraging others who have the same desire. I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge and confidence across a wide range of Art, Craft and Design practice. Art, Craft and Design practice is crucial to a maker, for in the sheer breadth of this field lie many opportunities to explore, experiment and cross-reference techniques, materials and ideas. Even as a trained painter I do not limit myself to the practice of painting, but consciously search for ways of expressing ideas through other technical means and material processes. This leads to outcomes that are surprising hybrids. By selecting materials not normally associated with standard practices, opportunities are offered for manipulation and structuring of colour, pattern and texture. All of this takes place within an approach that is, of necessity, open-ended. Recent working with PVC tapes and data cable refer, on the one hand, to the communications and electronics world that is central to modern life whilst taking me back to childhood memories of airplane scrapyards, which yielded perspex and wiring in my post-war scavenging and making formative years. I try to make things/objects/artefacts which reflect my life experiences, but within the control of rigorous, aesthetic selection and evaluation applied - at best - intuitively.