Everyone seems very interested to know how I classify myself as an artist. I use paint but I don’t really consider myself a painter, I use tactile materials and yet I cannot call myself ‘sculptor’ either. I prefer to identify my work with drawing. I draw with materials on paper and in three-dimensional space. In this sense drawing is used in a very broad and inclusive sense.

The debris of day to day living are the raw materials – today’s newspaper, old clothes, the stuff we use to mend broken things (plaster for our bones, cold glue for the furniture, old stockings to make young trees garden grow straight). Materials become landmarks and by extension artworks become way stations along the path of living/becoming/knowing.

Knowing occurs in doing. It is in the present instant of an action (in moments of total absorption in the act of doing) that one finds glimpses of the unity between ourselves and things.