To begin with...

For me writing and art have always functioned separately. Writing was writing, and art was art- and both stayed within a fairly traditional set up of art for the gallery space, and writing, well, it mostly stayed on paper. I completely missed the boat on the digitisation of art and writing, which makes this entire blogging endeavour a bit more interesting for me, especially at this time in my work. For a long long time, I  worked a particular way, a more formal way, using art abstractly and so focusing more on lines, shapes and colours, thereby evoking associations within the viewer. This is a very formalist approach to art making. Lately, I find myself drawn to certain images and objects, which I find interesting and effective as visual metaphors. I have been tempted to use them more and more frequently in my work. With this strange and exciting new work forming in my mind and in my studio, I am very very glad to have this blogging venue to write down and catalogue my thoughts as I make the work. Now, the writing will make sense of this newly evolving style and thus inform the painting further, making for clearer vision, and thus more writing and painting. A slow to start but deliciously circular wheel of thought, creation and reflection. I hope you, as a reader finds this interesting as well.