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Faster than words, painting is older than thought. The way we perceive the world is more significant than the way we think about it: It's the first experiencing.For me it's about integration - the old and the new experiences; holding them together, making sense through mythology.
But the image is not reached directly. It stands behind as an emergent value - something lost, half-glimpsed, somehow essential.
Rollercoast
I rely on recognition and have very few tricks. It's no careful gardening - more like a battlefield or tumbling through a hedge. What happened in this painting was a rollercoaster ride. Over the months it moved and evolved.Rollercoast is founded on a part of Cornwall that I know - a stretch of coast between Portreath and Godrevy. It's an image from my life; a walkabout - quietly endless, difficult and surprising.
Portreath is an open bay with a round hill and long pier. It's slate, north facing, steep, shady and very dark. The coast is flat - like you could roll marbles on it - but the road twists and turns. As you reach Godrevy you turn right around onto the south-facing coast of St Ives Bay.
However, I'm using landscape here as a device to enclose myth: Asclepius, born out of the flames of a funeral pyre.
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