Passive Reading
Passive Reading, egg tempera on panel, 20 x 31 cm, May 2025
The narrative is part of the point in most everything I make. It can be a story of colour, or pattern or figures. I hope I conjure a rhythm, some meaning and a feeling. Sometimes stories take you to places you don’t know, haven’t been to, but the best stories are vivid enough to make you believe that you almost go, or almost know the characters. Reading can be linear and based on marks on paper, or you can listen to words. For me, the magic of all that is that an image can do what words do, sometimes, and that words make us see pictures, and that engaging in reading makes us understand the world better – I am endlessly practical.
The bookends come from Adullam’s Cave. I like the laconic figures and the idea that they are propping up the books. The books are Kingfisher’s Catch Fire, Wind Sand and Stars, and the Suffolk Borders. The flowers were part of a bouquet gifted to me at the end of an exhibition.
Passive Reading, egg tempera on panel, 20 x 31 cm, May 2025
The narrative is part of the point in most everything I make. It can be a story of colour, or pattern or figures. I hope I conjure a rhythm, some meaning and a feeling. Sometimes stories take you to places you don’t know, haven’t been to, but the best stories are vivid enough to make you believe that you almost go, or almost know the characters. Reading can be linear and based on marks on paper, or you can listen to words. For me, the magic of all that is that an image can do what words do, sometimes, and that words make us see pictures, and that engaging in reading makes us understand the world better – I am endlessly practical.
The bookends come from Adullam’s Cave. I like the laconic figures and the idea that they are propping up the books. The books are Kingfisher’s Catch Fire, Wind Sand and Stars, and the Suffolk Borders. The flowers were part of a bouquet gifted to me at the end of an exhibition.
Passive Reading, egg tempera on panel, 20 x 31 cm, May 2025
The narrative is part of the point in most everything I make. It can be a story of colour, or pattern or figures. I hope I conjure a rhythm, some meaning and a feeling. Sometimes stories take you to places you don’t know, haven’t been to, but the best stories are vivid enough to make you believe that you almost go, or almost know the characters. Reading can be linear and based on marks on paper, or you can listen to words. For me, the magic of all that is that an image can do what words do, sometimes, and that words make us see pictures, and that engaging in reading makes us understand the world better – I am endlessly practical.
The bookends come from Adullam’s Cave. I like the laconic figures and the idea that they are propping up the books. The books are Kingfisher’s Catch Fire, Wind Sand and Stars, and the Suffolk Borders. The flowers were part of a bouquet gifted to me at the end of an exhibition.