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To paint involves a certain crisis, or at least a crucial moment of sensation or release.By crisis by no means limited to a morbid state, but could just as easily be an ecstatic impulse.

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I respond to the Greek love of metamorphosis.

I'm drawn to the primitive, the ritual and fetish elements.

When I work I work very fast, but preparing the work can take any length.

For myself the past is the source (for all art is vitally contemporary).

In painting it is the forming of the image.

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