I think of my painting as “bland” or "transparent” figuration.

It has developed from a frustration with the inability of abstract, colour-based painting to generate a specific, deep spatiality.

The inclusion of simple, diagrammatic figurative elements such as trees, flowers, tables, lamps, chairs, windows etc. vastly expands the spatial possibilities of painting without yielding too much to narrative interpretation. Colours and shapes are liberated to interact directly across virtual space.
It also enables a strong painterly emphasis on surface without risk to the spatial illusion.

I try to paint flat, with a minimal use of modeling and perspective, and with coarse, obvious brushwork that helps to establish the surface. Depth then becomes a function of mainly figurative clues.

Originally influenced philosophically by Wittgenstein´s late works and more recently by Susanne Langer and the writings of Gerald Murnane, I see my paintings as putative spatial/chromatic templates for the projection of a viewer´s subjectivity.

A painting is finished when it feels “right”, where rightness is the felt correspondence of its patterning in space and colour to some aspect of subjective experience. This correspondence confers form and thereby promotes awareness and a kind of community. It can be completely different for each individual and on every occasion.

The reaction I would most wish for in a viewer is a simple "yes".