Brutalist Dream continues a fascination with exploring possibilities of creating multiple patterns and rhythms through the use of colour across a matrix of circles. These works are a visual meditation on intersectionality in the sense that the forms and patterns that appear are all inter-related and derived from the repetition of circles. Each form, pattern, and unit shares many relationships to its neighbours. These works require a high degree of trial and error to get the eye of the viewer to travel across multiple dimensions and relations.

Odd as it may sound, I was reminded of Cézanne’s paintings of little hillside towns as I painted this, mostly in their beautiful tensions between horizontal and vertical gestures that are interrupted by diagonals and subtle shifts in hue and tone.

Upon completing this work, I had the epiphany that my work is now resolutely focused on wonder and its relation to inherited notions of beauty in the Western European tradition.

I love the colour energy in this one, where more simultaneous contrasts are used to add a percussive musicality to the work. I guess I have been searching for a way to be immersed in the process of creation and discovery in a manner akin to when I was a musician playing in bands that always maintained a high degree of improvisation. I’ve also been making slightly smaller paintings as a challenge to find a way to create the sense of a large space in a very limited one, but also because I have too many ideas I want to bring to life!