However the urgent need to express my art in the figurative form arises from time to time. I often have a sketchbook on the go, which contain hundreds of variations on the theme of the human form, and strange characters, doing odd things in peculiar surroundings. Most recently, in 1999, I did a big series of drawings of the faces of various odd-balls, which I will put online some time in the future. My non-representational paintings are eclectic in form and content. Quite often there is a symmetrical balance present, and sometimes a piece will comprise of multiples of canvases.
Geometry plays an important role, with the grid and circular forms being especially prevalant.
More recently, I have been using buttons and beads as highlights of texture and colour in the work. Like the figurative work, the abstract, with which it ran in tandem, is a quite a mixed bag of ideas and proceedures. The early pieces were knowingly experimental, and wilfully different from each other. Some worked, most didn't. My more recent non-representational work has a continuity and coherence that was lacking earlier.