I am developing a method where paint ( as all great painting does) captures moments, is relevant and expresses the unsaid, the soul, our society alongside the intention of the artist. Every aspect of what you may expect painting to be, where to find it, and who made it is being turned upside down.

The doing then is the ‘middle bit’...and it links into all work about PaDA ( painting as a democratic act), and the ‘absence of being +’ that I have been pondering for almost 2 years. A friend recently pointed out to me that my work is usually received as ‘playful’ and I do aim to cocreate pieces for playgrounds…I realised that my thesis from the late 1990s was an examination of the realm of play being so similar to my realm of making work at the studio.

I am now beginning to tie these ends together:

• Site, place, moment and context based work, capturing a snapshot of us now.

• Painted work / multimedia installations that are response based marks to any place or site.

• Developing shadows from expressive painted marks, living at a place.

• Timebased (painting) multimedia and exhibition as event, people’s photographs both souvenir and document.

• Inclusive..many authors, many can take part.

• I’m interested in how identity, material, environment, and context continually shape one another. In this exchange, I see paint as a universal language—one that speaks beyond the limitations of words.