Colour is the animator of my poetical ideal. It is the single most important device in my work, and the driving force behind its impact. - Brian Clarke

I used to think that I somehow existed apart from making art and thus my work itself existed outside prevailing realities, uninfluenced by circumstance. I was wrong and that's clear to me now. Biography and art intertwine, strangling and oxygenating simultaneously.

Painting is a way for me to view the world as it exists and the world as it might be.

Black has the power to astonish. It absorbs and reflects colour stealing much from the prevailing chromatic landscape. It makes blue bluer and light lighter. There are as many variations of black as there are of green.