I am engaged with percept and to a much lesser extent, concept.
What is happening visually in the world around me, instances of light, seasonal change, particularly in a rural environment, and a constant fascination with the raw materials of painting, provide for me, a compulsive collection of imperatives.
I work intuitively with changing thematic boundaries. The themes, for example “Beach Scenes”, or more recently “Palettes” often have quite prosaic origins but may come assume importance as they open pictorial territory.  The stuff I work with is paint, opacity, translucency, surface, shape, scale change, placement
and visual weight, etc.
“Is this blob big enough and what about that open area?” is the mundane conversation of making something.
Hopefully, something that transcends the ordinary and becomes sublime. - Phil Darrah