An Analysis of my Work as a Painter of Pictures: Thoughts on Artistic Interpretations of What is Perceived

The author describes his outlook on pictorial art, in particular the art of painting. He presents his method of making paintings in the light of what artists have done in the past, including his assessment of the importance of the relationships of the smallest basic unit (i.e. the daub of paint or brush-stroke) to the whole surface of a picture and the roles of texture and of colour hue and tone both in a painting’s support and in the materials used for executing a picture. Maintaining that there is no essential difference between non-figurative or abstract and figurative art, he points out that the ‘object’ of a picture, if represented with workmanlike integrity, often implies a meaning or significance beyond the conscious intention of the artist, whereas the deliberate attempt to make a painting on a specific ‘subject’ involves problems outside the province of picture-making that are often detrimental to the final result.

Examples of his own paintings serve to illustrate the ideas that he advances on the basis of his practical experience.