Wall – is a boundary painting a kind of painterly Stele or monument acting as territorial marker. The lower and upper sections of the painting create a here and there, a double horizon of ground and sky, leaving a landscape beyond with unseen potential and opportunity to wander.

Walls are both cultural and natural. The wall of a house and garden might demarcate our personal and domestic boundaries, offering protection and affirming status. Conversely a looming wall of granite, water or earth may excite fear and awe. A wall then is practical and a catalyst and place for our hopes and fears.

Wall has the texture and structure of architecture but also contains the suggestion of a face. Perhaps a face one longs to know, or has forgotten? The works synaesthesia asks one to commune with its surface and enter its space; indeed this is a painting you look into and through. Despite the structural weight of stone and flesh the soft blue hues have the lightness of breath, whilst the warm dirty yellows and blacks throw into relief its weighty form. It is a painting that asks you to contend with and accept its paradox; hard and soft, delicate and rough, wet and dry.