what do I ask myself when I finish a new artwork?

The intention is to achieve a kind of flow, allowing the outcomes to emerge where they will, without (too much) pre-determination. To let go of my innate need to control. The only planning with these paintings, such as it is, is a decision on the colours to be used.

It’s difficult for painting - abstract or not - to fully escape the pictorial window, where 'figures' seem to be positioned within 'space'. So how can one dissolve this foreground / background duality?

A painting resists the temporally structured unfolding that defines music or poetry.

This quote from Barnett Newman made me chuckle, "Aesthetics is to artists what ornithology is to birds".

The square is decided for us. All we have to do is decide what to put inside it.

Sometimes unnatural is the only thing that makes sense.

Convenient as it is for curators and art historians to divide art into distinct form v expression camps, creativity resists pigeonholing.