"Painting is a necessary and essential mode of expression."
Painting, for me, is a necessary and essential mode of expression. A way of interpreting our increasingly complex world and communicating a response to it. Landscape, nature, architectural heritage, music, relationships; all can inform the paintings but each painting then becomes a journey; an accumulation of thoughts, emotions, questions, encounters.
By laying down colour, making marks with a brush, knife, rags, fingers or scraping back to reveal under layers until finally reaching a sense of an ending. Sometimes the process can take many years of tweaking and reworking. Other times the painting is resolved in a matter of days.
It is often a surprise to see the end result - it comes from such a deep place inside oneself.
Julie Cooper
