My paintings participate in the age-old tradition of fresco mural painting, spanning continents and millennia, made with the very same materials such as pure pigments and lime. They differ from the ancient in being portable and in offering subjects other than the explicit.
The work expresses various abstract concepts like hope, chance, the seasons, temptation, challenge, beginnings, the sun, chaos and so on, themes that in ancient times were talked about in myths and were often depicted as gods.
The meaning of these concepts is and has always been universal. The fresco techniques used to depict these themes in ancient times have also been used worldwide, making use of the materials, the pigments and binders that were available at the time and place.
Today the significance of the gods and myths has changed, but we understand, feel and can make sense of the ideas when expressed in abstract art or music, thereby adding new meaning to the original impressions.
My frescos are composed of myriad layers. By inducing ‘craquelure’, oxidation and erosion, underlaying sections emerge and blend with upper layers.
The ultimate result can be seen as a mirror of ourselves, shaped by circumstances along the way, a metaphor for the layer upon layer constitution of our lives.
I embrace happenstance, imperfection and irregularity.
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