I’ve always been drawn to the sea, initially on holidays, but then we moved to the Channel Isles when I was 12, so it’s been a fixture since then. I love the restlessness of it, the state of constant change, within the parameters of the geology, tides and seasons. It’s always the same, yet never the same. There are similarities with making paintings, where everything is in a state of flux and full of possibility, but still governed by the materials.
The word ‘style,’ applied in a fine art context, always troubles me. The way we work may develop over time, but the look of it is like handwriting, a deeply personal product of the way our hands move, and our mind’s function. ‘Style’ suggests one might wear a different…
