Easel #1 began as a conversation between colours, a raw outpouring of emotion and energy. A multitude of individual dabs of paint — ochre, turquoise, crimson, gold, silver — jostle for position like a crowd of competing thoughts.

Each daub is a distinct texture, a fragment of intuition. This is the foundation: the beautiful, untamed wilderness of the subconscious.

A highly painterly work, crafted with deliberate precision and sought-after intent.

I invite you into its layers. Wander along the meandering paths. What do you see in the noise? A cosmic nebula? A forest floor teeming with life? A satellite city glowing at night?

The work carries the energy of nature seen up close: the shimmer of moss and earth, the shifting tones of autumn leaves, the microscopic geometry of cells branching into unseen directions. Yet it remains entirely abstract — a landscape of the mind, painted directly from impulse.

At first glance, it’s a frenzy of colour and depth. Production, though, is not merely random. A search for pathways. Ideas.

My painting invites multiple readings: a forest after rain, a nebula in spring or the cartography of thought crystallising. Each interpretation is an opinion of self.

Threading across the surface is a network of deep umber lines. Roots, veins, neural circuits — maps of thought itself. A weaving structure through impulse, linking hundreds of discoveries into a unified whole.

At least, this is my interpretation..

For those having missed my Instagram post for this painting, here is the writing I published:

“Five distinct drafts, the last of these the defining idea, a then-realised originating inspiration.  Canvas held in hand throughout my fifth draft.

A painting symbolically the notes of your voice, potential, your personal ability, to produce your own harmonic sound of melody in life.

Easel #1 presents a dynamic composition where rich, painterly textures and a profusion of colour evoke a visual topography that shifts between natural and imagined forms. 

The painting is structured by a network of interlaced, vein-like umber lines that organically traverse the surface, echoing neural pathways. These darker linear forms separate swathes of vibrant, impasto daubs in cadmium-orange, yellow-ochre, cadmium-yellow, ultramarine, turquoise, gold and titanium-white—each practical dab contributing to a dense, fractal rhythm.

The central area of the canvas suggests a focal illumination or zone of heightened chromatic complexity. Silvery whites-creams emerge from the surrounding matrix. A compositional strategy draws the eye inward while retaining the all-over balance of action painting.

Easel #1 places itself within post-impressionistic abstraction, perhaps informed by Pollock’s non-linear gesturalism, textural buildup and discrete pigment groupings. The work may also be interpreted as poetic cartography—biological and/or terrestrial in implication—suggesting an unfixed terrain of consciousness or memory.”

Thank you.