Original acryllic painting on canvas from 2002 500x400. 'One of the constant factors in my process of working is the emotive dialogue I have with the scale materials in painting. Owing to the problems of age and fading eyesight i have had to create limitations in my working process so that the dialogue can continue. for about ten years now I have been building surfaces by spraying colour grounds of varying hue on the stretched white primed canvas. onc ehte syrface I want has been achieved I respond by sqeezing large tubes of acrlic colour directly on to the canvas and this results in an iconograpic element loosely relating to handwriting. This final application of marks is achieved with speed in a kind of dance by the painter reacting to the whole large surface. These paintings are not descriptive of any direct experience but are analogues for a varity of stimuli and actions which have been part of my life as a painter. the result is not only what you see, it is what you get as well.