’Time, wear and tear, deterioration and decay are the subjects that inform the current work. Time in the geological sense where changes are brought about naturally by the elements over the millennia, as well as in the modern sense where environmental pressures are caused by social and economic changes together with man’s needs and changing attitudes to the natural world over the centuries. The paintings try to express, in abstract terms, the feeling of history being built up layer upon layer. Some traces are clearly visible, some half seen, some still to be discovered and some lost forever; for example the overhanging of tracks with roads, roads with highways, the pastoral with the urban.

The most recent paintings derive from the desert landscape of the American Southwest. An attempt is made to convey the sense not only of the traces left by man’s struggle for existence in a harsh environment but also the parched, desiccated nature of the country, the vast distances, the heat, colours, unique rock formations, and the delicate and beleaguered structure of plant and animal life in the face of today’s continuing unsustainable development in an arid land.’