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?

This year I've been imposing limits on my creativity and paradoxically, doing so has opened up broad vistas of compositional possibility.

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".

I'll usually have a very basic, imprecise plan but the objective when I draw, is just to draw.

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