It's not that painting is the medium with which I identify the most. Painting is the medium through which I am able to identify with anything externa… - Brian Clarke

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.

It is through painting that I understand how to view architecture, appreciate the rhythm of a poem, draw pleasure from the structure of a well-composed sentence. And it is through painting that the complexity of music makes itself understood to me. It is through painting, in fact, that I am.

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.