For more than 40 years I have quietly been drawing and painting. Not for exhibiting or to sell. It was only ever intended for me, family and friends.

Meanwhile, I got on with the day job of designing and running the London based design company, Coley Porter Bell, which I set up in 1978 with friends, Jim Coley and Sally Bell.

I’m not sure back then anyone thought that what I did was any good. I’m not sure even I did! But it was a reliable if sometimes sporadic form of therapy and it got me through some low points but also delivered some memorable highs. I’m fortunate that this passion for image making persists and has become, several decades later, my new ‘day job’.

Occasionally, and I guess inevitably, I’m often asked; Whats it all about?

This can sometimes be difficult to articulate, and my replies can often vary (apologies). But what drove me on, all those years ago, and continues to stimulate me today, is experiencing the constant flux of pure sensory events that can evolve through geometry and colour. Simply put, I explore, colour, shape and space and paint to experience colour, shape and space.

I am interested in both the physical presence of colour as well as its emotional potential. For me the journey of image making is mediative and contemplative. In my work I try to adhere to a certain set of basic rules consisting of geometric shapes; triangles, squares, circles and stripes etc to provide a foundation that allows colour to reveal its maximum energy and vividness which hopefully in turn will percolate through the work as a whole.

My overriding goal is to experience the vibrating, emotional presence of colour. It emits a form of pure energy that is not only dynamic and evocative but above all can be blissfully joyous!