Brushstrokes of the imagination

Matrix

"I treat my paintings in the same way as a computer regards information. Every individual painting is one basic unit of data or bit. It encapsulates within it all the visual information or "appearance" with regard to how it has been produced- such as colours, lines, texture, tones, content, artist intent, moods and style.

The whole collection of finished works or appearances forms a database, containing an enormous quantity of information out of which selection can be made for combining and recombining, using the montage technique, into many larger composite paintings or appearances. As the database keeps on expanding, the scope for creating more and better composite pictures of many constituent parts, keeps on increasing. The interaction of the constituent parts occur when units are placed in close proximity, side by side or overlapping, their contents or appearances interacting visually, affecting the look of the whole. This database becomes a living organism, with each cell bearing an imprint of the same genetic source. Conceptually, the painter simulates his own cloning, building up an ever-changing giant portrait of himself in his quest for inner meaning."