I've become far more concerned with light in the subjects I choose and the way I handle paint. Some of my paintings disregard form in favour of a sudden visual impression or an expression of energy or atmosphere. These features of my work are carried by the movement and intensity of light on subjects, expressed by colour, or a range of tonal values. I want to create paintings that feel themselves as if they contain light, emit light, rather than just merely copy a scene tone for tone, shape for shape. I want my paintings to also have a certain decorative quality to them, as of they are within the same vein as an abstract sculpture or even a work of an abstract expressionist, through the arrangement of found shapes and patterns, I feel in the same vein of thought as an abstract painter. I am exploiting the shapes I see to create a pleasing composition, sometimes with no regard for what is depicted in the process. When the subject is disregarded in terms of it’s emotional or symbolic quality, and is placed beautifully in a composition, the whole painting becomes an object of beauty and not just a beautiful scene.