Line of Beauty

"These are my creative musings on what has come before; the stories, intentions and motivations of those artists and their methodologies. How the work is made, why and where it is made and what it leads on to. It’s like an imagined line through history whereby one artist influences another, a constant reimagining of ideas, patterns and variety. There is a very human repetition, an evolution, a sense of being a part of the chain.This exhibition comprises paintings as well as preparatory drawings and studies. I

felt that spirit of finding (and it often feels to me that I ‘find’ a painting) could be well

shown through supporting work and those dialogues and differences between the

first and final thought. Having this language laid bare was as interesting to me as I

hope it will be to the viewer. Lines of thinking leading to a solution.

So the heart of this exhibition really is a question; what is a purer subject for painting

than painting itself?"

The exhibition catalogue is from Barry Mcglashan's show 'Line of Beauty' in 2018