I have chosen the title “Exploration in Yellow” with the knowledge that it is the one colour when cold that can be the most offensive and when warm make us all feel unexplainably drawn to it. It is also the one colour that we would find very difficult to live without. A warm or cold yellow creates how we feel about what is around us.

This particular body of work is about the narrative. Painting is language, it allows the artist to speak about what they see and feel. It is an endless pit of interpretation by the viewer and the artist who will spend a lifetime finding all the words. In this work, the colour yellow creates a feeling about and within each painting. It can represent the sun but still feel cold, it can create a feeling of warmth and prettiness yet overshadow torment.

The narrative to a painting for me is important. Can you sit down and write a few lines to an opening paragraph about what story a painting tells? We are taught to paint what you see and this is crucial but what you see goes beyond the technical skills. What the subject portrays and how I as an artist portray it lies totally in my interpretation of the language of art. I am hoping each painting in this body of work goes beyond the limitation of my own technical skills and takes the viewer to a place of emotion.