What's it all about?

I make books and I paint.

  I paint because I am fascinated by colour. I layer transparent colour, look at how colours affect one another, and try to capture light inside the paint. Because the subject of the work is colour I have been called a “colorist”. The finished paintings become a record and trace of my practice. They have been described as “very painterly” and I think this means that the viewer can feel the process of painting as if they had made the marks themselves.

  When I need to use sequence or groups or concept, I make a book. An artists’ book is art that simply chooses to use the format of a book. Mine usually use drawing or photography, and text. I make books that offer a moment of cheerful confusion, that celebrate the beauty of the so-called ordinary, books made of groupings and lists, cataloguing the things and places we think we know, that offer a new look at things you see every day. I am trying my best to make contact with humanity. Serendipity Press is the imprint name I use to distinguish my books from my other artistic work.