My work is fundamentally abstract and concerned with geometry. It explores structure, both formal pictorial structure and the illusion of architectural physical form existing in space. It is also concerned with the transformation of that structure: folding, twisting, rotating and reflecting the integral geometry, often using colour to disrupt the spatial orientation of the individual image.

In recent years the paintings have become objects – shaped wooden panels – and the shadows they cast on the wall have become part of the image. Of equal importance and running parallel to my practice as a painter is printmaking, especially etching. The two disciplines are quite different but inform and inspire each other. 

Printmaking in turn has led to a series of artists books – made in collaboration with contemporary writers – and Partworks, a sequence of publications which explored the book form itself, with the artist Ian Tyson.

The idea and its means of expression [technique], have always been inseparable; from the early paintings on canvas through the gamut of printmaking techniques, watercolour and computer drawings, language and idea are one.