Over the last few days I’ve been thinking about the value judgements that are intrinsic within an artistic practice. It’s hard to not add a value to a new work, there is something encoded in our minds that helps to make a decision about what we see in front of us.

I’m thinking about the next development of my practice, looking at recent and older work, trying to find a thread that will help me discover something new yet connected. Time for some experimentation in the landscape.

The Abstracted 35 series has provided a unique opportunity to test the limits of abstraction, to see how much detail can be removed from an image and still create interest and conversations about what the images represent

I don't know if it's just the time of year but I've been spending time considering the direction of my practice and how my concerns have both evolved and clarified into some conceptual ideas that will impact on my ways of working.

Despite what you may have been told, being an artist can be full of tension, it’s not always fun, it’s not always messy and sometimes some structure is needed.  It is these challenges that keep things interesting and push me to create, to experiment and to move forward.