My work is much influenced by music and consequently it tends towards abstraction, though I also use occasional figurative elements as quasi-realistic asides or indicators to enhance the elusive nature of the abstract generality. Sometimes the marks and shapes can be seen as silent, frozen melodic fragments, while colour acts as similarly static layers of tonal blocks or harmonies. I find visual stimulation from various sources including those of natural and urban landscape, the sea, gardens, doors, windows, solitude and dreams in all of which I also find metaphors for the two contradictory dynamisms of painting - that of looking inwards and outwards.