Light, in its many manifestations, surprises, entices, seduces, mystifies. Form thrusts at us the often unbelievable to challenge our norms.
My background in commercial art and design has heightened my awareness of what's different, of what's missing, of where unusual lights and shadows form.
Five decades of photographic practice, as recorder of remote expeditions, industrial and construction processes, portraits and architecture, has shaped my ability to see.
Beginning in my school years, my artistic practice embracing sculpture and painting, specialising in abstract expressionism, culminated in my first Australian exhibition, in Sydney, officially opened by the Danish Consul General.
Eleven works, collectively titled 'Night on a Bald Mountain, each imagined the successive musical scenes of Mussorgsky's dramatic work of the same name, interpreting the episodes of my own unlikely survival of an Arctic hurricane, only visible as dramatically swirling light.
Light, an interruption to the expected, forces us to see anew. Form offers the improbable, often revealed by light's absence.