brushwork and impasto. These paintings, with their strength and serenity, contrast greatly with our disorderly world.
I have been inspired to paint street scenes and cityscapes, primarily on the strength of photographs taken while on bicycle trips to various locales.
Cities and towns are presented in many scenes, expressing a vivid poetic presentation. Plastered walls, iron gates, street lamps, rustic lanes, rows of buildings, chimney pots, church steeples and grand dark windows are found in my work.
I express an emotion for the beauty hidden in the ordinary and create a delicate poetry within the most insignificant scene – a poetry that can not be spoken. While working at a canvas or panel, I feel like a poet who has expressed an emotional balance, a harmony that is seldom achieved. In our hurried existence we may be distracted by many objects that vie for our attention; the poet-painter, selecting a subject, directs us out of chaos to the supreme state of mind - enlightenment.