Art is an offering, a show that mirrors the show we form around ourselves as we move through our scenery. - Deborah Poynton

I have just carried on doing what I did as a child. It’s been one long continuous stream of making pictures to feel a sense of connectedness. Painting this way is a wordless exclamation….Sometimes people get cross with it because they hate that it’s not about anything, and that I just carry on with all this realism. This fiddle-faddle, this knitting.

I lived in many different places as I was growing up. This gave me an awareness of difference, the understanding that security cannot be found in the outside world.

Art is always artful, a ruse, a trick. It is a court fool, jumping up and down, aping its masters. Art is part of the dream that we inhabit.