NEW

I’m enjoying the way watery paint moves across the canvas, forging its own direction. Then I work with it, slowly adding thin washes of colour. It is partly planned, and partly happens on its own. A bit like life, I guess.

It’s important to reinvent my work, or I’ll get trapped into just painting what people ask for because they’ve seen it before. The past 2 years gave me a great time to shift, the upside of having a tumour so rare no doctor had seen it before. I emerged a different man physically, and my work is driven by something different.

The new work draws on mapmaking, looking out of plane windows, Korean line drawing, Bushman art and ancient art (the oldest art in the world comes from this part of the world, about 75 000 years ago), and the beauty of African landscapes.