"My pastels are from life - usually accomplished rapidly to capture the energy present in a fleeting moment - these are used as the basis for my oil paintings
-they are like notes to myself, but sometimes they also work in their own right..."

"The eye and its' workings is like this - it 'creates' what we see from millions of instances of an 'object' - a face, a tree, anything - the resulting picture subsequently hits the optic nerve and is transmitted thus to the brain - it is the eye that creates what we see - this is just one "sense of the self" - taken together with all the others we are formidable creatures."