I have experimented with enamel paint for years because I love what the material can produce in terms of effect and emotion on canvas. The paint is not as easy to work with as it seems. What may seem a simple splat or spill happens spontaneously when I create them, but I have thought about what and where I want to spill and splat and what positive and negative forms I want to create. You can’t undo the paint once it is on the surface therefore when I get it right; they are works that are pure and powerful, as they leave the unnecessary out. Unlike the forms in my oil paintings, which often merge into one another and are more atmospheric in nature, the forms in these works are very definite in their colour with the painted image clearly delineated. The enamel paintings, therefore are bold pure and confident, there is no in-between, what you see is what you get, they do not lie.