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Art is both an escape and the centre of everything – activity, meditation, excitement and continuous discovery. When I lose myself in it, the dull edges of the world fade away and the intriguing is illuminated. As if I’m looking at the world through special glasses, and unexpected, delightful things happen. And it makes me smile.

The late Robert Hodgins, who I was sorry never to have met, described art as “an auto-intoxication that allows one to live through marriages, divorces, deaths and unhappy love affairs, and come up smiling all the time.”

Work that inspires me tends to be giant; Monet’s vast water lily canvasses in Paris, the Rothko room at the Tate Modern, whole cave walls of bushman paintings, Pollock. The power in their scale intrigues me, when my eyes lose sense of the edges and it’s as if I step into the scene.

I aspire to lightness, clarity, a fresh point of view, depth, darkness, stillness, animation. I’m not going to tell you what to read into my work. I think it’s as much in your interpretation as mine. I like hearing what people say, so please leave a comment here or on Facebook.

Recently I was asked by Jacobs coffee to do an outdoor installation of Nelson Mandela's face for his birthday, with cups of different shades of coffee. Watch it on YouTube to see how it came together.

The work here has been roughly grouped according to phases, with over 600 works completed to date hanging in South Africa, the UK, Germany, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Spain

Work will be shown at my solo exhibition at In Toto Gallery, Johannesburg, from 1 March – 11 April 2012, including the litho prints editioned at The Artist’s Press and exciting new work on canvas. The opening is on Thursday 1 March. Please contact the gallery directly for details at intotogallery.co.za