Gallery three Environmental

History has often defined ideal as a harmonic of sweet beauty presented as an end and a substitute for truth. This has given the word ideal a bad connotation. Therefore, I use the words visual ideal to mean a melodic dialogue between harmony and dissonance, as the aesthetic, to present content. This creates a beauty that is used as a means to excite the viewer's interest toward truth within my art.

Since 2000, I have been working full-time as a professional figurative artist. This has enabled me to produce a large body of figurative work that presents itself in serial format. I did not start with a signature painting and then proceed to make variations for each series, as a post-WW II Modernist would have done. Each of my series has its own unique schematic language that reveals a visual language evolving in a time of transition. The first series began minimal, flat and colorful, related closely to fauvism. The sequence of the series quickly evolved toward the 21st century incorporating a complex structure and developed form.

My most recent art draws its inspiration from areas of the scottish colourists, which were inappropriate choices for the Modernist. To create a new art direction from these areas of history, I stay purposely away from Romanticism, an escape from the realities of life, and by doing so, this gives my work truth and believability without resorting to realism, a modernist idea. In the act of creation, my art is a deep and pure expression of my immense love of life. Endowed with a rare plastic feeling, almost sculptural in its quality. joined with it an exceptional sense of colour, outspoken, ringing colours, rich and splendid in their very substance."