I can’t imagine this world without colour, in a perpetual grey. How could we live this life without colours? I’m sure that our reality would not exist as it we experience it now. Colour affects us consciously and unconsciously, our physiology and our psychology.
My paintings are a reflection of my constant work around shape and colour. The colours "jump” out to the viewer, I try to create a visual explosion. I am interested in distorting and altering colours in relation to reality. I do not seek to make an exact copy of what I observe. I want to alter, intensify reality. To quote Jules Feiffer: "Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid "
I look for the formal balance with the colours that I use, through the use of warm and cold tones. The complementary colours are what really give meaning to my pictorial work. And each colour has a particular meaning in my paintings, I use them freely,