I feel the role of the artist in our society is to intepret the world in ways that are unique to the artist. To question our perceptions, provide alternative meanings and sometimes to propose answers. But always to question and analyse.

After a long gestation period wherein I sketched, studied art history and read about visual art, I signed up for an oil painting course in 2000. With successful results I went on to exploring what I wanted to do as a budding artist. It was a weekend workshop in abstract painting that really gave me a boost in a direction that I had always been interested in but was not sure how to approach. Abstraction!

I find painting in an abstract genre to be very challenging and liberating at the same time. You can paint anything you want, in any way that you want, with any medium. This should be easy, but if you take the time to consider what you want the painting to express, and how to express it, then it can be very challenging. Try putting your emotions on canvas. You first have to think about how you are feeling, and then to express that. Very tough, introspective stuff. I am still, and probably always will be, in a learning mode with the abstract genres of expressionist and symbolist painting.