While, in painting terms, I might be completely content to focus for the rest of my life, on light reflected on and through the saline ocean surface, I do sometimes feel the need to punctuate the ocean paintings with more overtly allegorical works (weather paintings or performance projects, though have included only paintings here) that stem from reaction to stuff that I see in the world that I live in, or that attempt to reconcile/come to terms with some experience or way of seeing things.

Some examples of such ‘stuff’ might be imbalances in resources, social censure, species extinction, perversely utilitarian power-tripping at the expense of the planet and the ‘common man’, and so on.

Thus, where the cumulative content of my work is concerned, I sometimes rely as a creative strategy on the combined effect of placing seemingly disparate art objects or sentiments next to one another to set up a tension in the hope of engaging with the world in an emotional way and reflecting my own ongoing interrogation of my motives for making art as an exaltation of beauty versus a provocation of thought in the prospective audience.