I paint because it is what I love doing best.
I see painting as phenomena of surface. Paintings and drawings are inherently planar. As space/time is the inescapable component in the process of ‘making’, my paintings act as maps. Selecting the square format is offering a neutral space to work from. It reaffirms its esoteric creative symbolism.
In first instance, I seek a “structure” within the determined surface- area of a canvas with the help of my inner story. This focused awareness guides the process between line and colour. I believe that surfaces are ‘excited’ states of perception transforming the field and changing it into an “event field”. The final image is mostly self-formed, self-determined. The process I follow is intrinsically ‘natural’.
As part of the process, I choose to rotate the canvas clock wise or anti-clockwise following the ancient Wicca tradition. Between layers, the intention affirms itself despite a certain amount of struggle involved. This resistance meets and reinforces the initial intention.
One can 'feel out' and explore what is unknown, rather than go on, as has generally been one's habit leading to modifications, extensions, or other developments within the framework of what has already been known, either in one's own field or in some other field. Thus one's work can begin to be really creative, not only in the sense it will contain genuinely original features, but also in that these will cohere with what is being continued from the past to form one harmonious, living, evolving totality.
David Bohm 'On Creativity'
