This year I promised myself some time off from producing work for shows and for sale, to give myself the space play, experiment and explore.

Sometimes you find something you didn’t know you were looking for.

When people ask me to describe my ‘style’ I guess they are wondering what sort of art container to put my work in. Some typical descriptors people might use for their work are things like abstract, expressionist etc. I’ve always had a little trouble putting my work firmly into one camp. So end up with something rambling (which usually sounds like this ‘well it’s kind of illustrative with a graphic design ish aesthetic, kind of hard edge and blocks of colour sort of thing) that (poorly) speaks more to the output than what my work is about. Yes my artwork can be all of those things, but what it’s really about… is a season. Summer. And it’s about how that season makes me feel.

Social media demands that you all always on, always taking action and always externalising. However, when I looked into my own creative cycle I found there are definitely times when what I naturally need in order to do my best work, is at odds with that. Here’s what I discovered…