The Theatre of the Edge

‘I want to make an art which has nothing to do with survival, that thinks about where human beings fit in the chain of being, that asks who we are and where we’re going.’ Anthony Gormley

‘ On the edge of change sharpened like a knife slicing into the unknown for better or worse, the curtain falls to the floor and there is no one on the stage. What to do, fall headlong into a high fever of uncertainty clinging to the flotsam of imagination for buoyancy in this new environment where nothing is predictable and everything is in flux.

All the moorings are lost. The only option left is to let go, then fall or maybe fly.

There never was an edge, was there, it was fear that built the cliff of illusion. ‘

This painting was influenced by the work of Per Kirkeby: the geological and other types of layering of materials hopefully rendering emotional depth permeate the work and this is something I’m inspired by.

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