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The painterliness of Willem de Kooning and the flat planes of Ad Reinhardt influence my work.

Although considered mutually exclusive I deliberately bring the two together, and combine fast painting with solid blocks of colour. It is this placement which underpins my work as a whole.

I like to paint this way as it means I can bring opposites together and at the same time create layers. Placing blocks of colour over sections of paint can create a facade , and a feeling that if peeled away there could be revealed something hidden underneath.

Therefore working paint in this way owes a lot to the influences of paper cutting and collage as much as it does to the painterliness of abstract expressionism.