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Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.
An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature ... Observation is considered the key to natural science.
In general, my paintings are multifocal. You can't call it unfocused space, but not being fixed to a single focus is very much of our time.
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience.
I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind.
As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer.
The actual basis of colour is instability. Once you accept that in lieu of something which is stable, which is form, you are dealing with something which is unstable in its basic character, you begin to get a way of dealing with it.
It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions ... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising.
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.
There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.
The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed and soothed, experience frictions and ruptures, glide and drift. One moment, there will be nothing to look at and the next second the canvas seems to refill, to be crowded with visual events.
I work with nature, although in completely new terms.
