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REDO

This group of paintings shows the stories I tell myself and the games I play while I am watching paint dry.

So much time in the studio is spent watching paint dry.

In between watching, I interplay geometric shape and figurative form to amuse, confuse and distract myself.

I am painting on repurposed canvases that have been stored in the attic for quite some time, waiting – pre-stretched and pre-primed – for a new meaning.

I start by making reference to the inner stretcher frame on the surface, as if I were building the support. Then I draw in the compositional grid, as I did with string when the canvases were fresh. I liked using this grid method to t

ransfer and enlarge “the drawing”. Back then I did drawings on paper to capture ideas for paintings on canvas. Now I draw on experiential ephemera.

Matisse said: I do not think exactly the way I thought yesterday… I do not repudiate any of my paintings but there is not one of them that I would not redo differently if I had to redo.