![]() There have been some significant influences along the way, including Byzantine Icons, Italian Quattrocento painting, South American and African tribal and folk art, Aboriginal art, especially Rover Thomas and the East Kimberly School, classical geometry and architecture, Minimalism Suprematism, and Cubism, Sangaku, JapaneseTemple Geometry, the mathematics of paper-folding, and Islamic decoration are a few that come to mind. These have been recurring themes through out the years of my painting, printing and making. ![]() Folding, dividing, splitting, and pattern and the repeated evolving motif. In this exhibited body of paintings, I continue to be engaged with a life long play with and around the ideas of a random geometry. We are grateful to Louise Jones and Lemon Street Gallery for so enthusiastically hosting us and promoting our work. To have such a wonderfully engaging wife, six children and now ten grandchildren, too many animals, and a home that needs constant maintenance, has saved me I believe, from becoming a miserable misery and enriched my life, work and practice! This dream, rather like my dream of uncluttered minimalism in my house and home, is in reality a cut and thrust existence of balance and social interaction, interruption and disturbance. In an ideal world, I have always dreamed, I would pursue a quiet hermit existence, withdrawn from the world and spending uninterrupted time in my studio in contemplation and isolation making paintings. So why are we showing together in the same gallery now? … It was accidental, or co-incidental happenstance and took us unawares, in a unique moment of togetherness. The interface that lies between us and the ‘art world’ and our public out there and with all the irksome practicalities of everyday life. ![]() We have assiduously tried to maintain our own professional independence and as a result, have been able to quietly support each other in the private chaos, caused by some of the more unpalatable aspects of the artists’ life. For all these years, we have avoided sharing an exhibition space at the same time. I have been painting for almost 40 years, for nearly three quarters of those years in a professional relationship and married to my wife Judy Buxton with whom I am sharing the Lemon Street Gallery for this exhibition. Ad Reinhardt the great conceptual minimalist and art writer commented "Art is too serious to be taken seriously".
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