I got sucked into some reading and thinking that led me to some works of Joan Mitchell that have really gotten under my skin. I started exploring the 550+ compiled works on the Joan Mitchell Foundation website – what a treasure trove it is! I wish I could include some specific images here, but I… Read more: Joan Mitchell: Light, energy & tension

I’ve been a little stuck on what to post. I’m in research mode: reading, thinking, and having discuss – which makes it difficult to write something cohesive while I am still processing. However, someone asked me last week what my daily schedule is like, which inspired an idea of how to approach this post. I… Read more: Cy Twombly: Erasure & visual language

I think this painting has a lot of vibrating colour – sometimes it almost gives me a headache and other times I’m completely attracted to it’s energy. In choosing the palette, I was thinking about utilising complimentary colours, and my palette had to be cleaned off several times during the painting process to prevent the… Read more: Albers’ relativity of colour

I’ve re-organised the paintings in my studio and I’m seeing a trend towards the acid yellow-oranges and deep green-blue hues of the tropics. I was reminded of a comment from a visitor to my atelier who felt my paintings had something Asian about them, she thought something about the colours, which I hadn’t seen until… Read more: Colour: Tropical colours