MY PROCESS.

I don't always have a schedule, I find there's not much point in walking into the studio at 8am only to stand there for two hours wondering what to paint. I do try to make a plan the night before so that I can start any new work, or work out an idea that I've had by making sketches and designs.

If on the other hand I'm making collage, I'll  have a plan as it’s labour intensive and sometimes takes several weeks to make a large collage. I will break to start new work providing it's a short time span piece like a watercolour, then I can return to my ongoing project.

A series can be ongoing throughout an artist’s lifetime and may contain any number of works in all mediums.

Planning spontaneity only works occasionally for me. Yes, there are days when I enter the studio exclaiming “…today I'm going to be spontaneous and brilliant”. Then I fail miserably. However, another day I may succeed so it's always worth trying as there is no other reason to paint other than sheer enjoyment and an attempt to get one’s message across, whatever that might be.

Artists are rarely happy with their efforts, I tend to judge what I consider to be the success of a finished work by viewing the endless mistakes strewn along the road which has led me there.