Notes on painting and perception
Painting is not an illustration of an idea. It is an event of perception. A work begins when attention lingers longer than recognition.
The first encounter is always visual, but the real work begins after seeing. A painting succeeds when it continues to act even after the viewer has left it.
In this sense, the canvas does not carry a message. It creates a condition in which meaning can arise within the viewer.
The spiral form recurring in the works is not symbolic decoration. It is an observation. Growth, memory, sound, breath, and time all unfold through recurrence rather than straight progression.
The paintings attempt to hold the moment before form becomes object — where vibration, colour, and awareness are still one event.
For this reason, abstraction here is not the absence of reality but a deeper encounter with it.
A painting is completed by the viewer. Each person brings a different memory, silence, and expectation to the work.
When the viewer stops searching for what the painting represents and instead attends to what it does, the work begins to unfold.
Selections from studio notes and conversations.