My painting, entitled Tu Tu, is an imaginary abstraction which combines both real and virtual images using modern tools and techniques. As a child, I used to dream in vivid rainbow colours, as if to prophesy my future as a visual artist. A painter lives a life of curiosity in which colours and shapes of everyday objects can stimulate flights of fantasy in his fertile imagination. Examples of common objects might be a red chair or green garbage can. The painter’s creative temperament sees beauty in what many would see as ordinary in a mundane world.
While I did not formally train as an artist, including studying aesthetics, I have spent many decades practising my craft and honing my painting techniques. Each individual artwork has been created wherever I happen to be at the time — looking out of a window on a winter scene, in the shade of a tree on a hot summer’s day, or in my studio. Repetition is an important element in achieving satisfaction, rather than relying on luck.