Painting

Untitled (Landscape) 16 x 20 ins. Acrylic and random materials on canvas, Feb 2011.

Though non-representational, my paintings have structure. The minimum structure possible is the rectangle of the support. Within that, I tend to visualise a smaller rectangle, or square, with elements of the painting arranged roughly along its sides, unevenly distributed. The result is something like parts of a landscape are grouped.

The concept of structure has appealed to me and lodged in my mind for a long time.I don't know what can be made of it; structuralism as a philosophy was discarded some time ago. However it is a distinctive feature of the world. Perhaps one can cling to it as an anchor, in some sense, a guiding principle. Organisms wouldn't exist without it. The top picture is of an item I found, about 1 inch long, it looks like the skeleton of something aquatic like a sponge, and is a good example of natural structure. (I tried to delete the blurry shot but couldn't)