Limiting myself to simple blocks of colour seemed to open up more possibilities.

Originally, in 1966, I did a small painting which was about objects in a room (see first painting above). They were sitting in space, no detail, just blocks of colour and they were floating in a grey background. Using only blocks of colour to indicate the objects in space. Then, years later I began to do a painting with simple blocks of colour, very similar to the original. In these later paintings there is a sense of a landscape by the introduction of a horizontal line i.e. the horizon. The blocks of colour were the only things in the painting and I began to realise that once you limit yourself to just a scenario of a number of blocks then you could really start to play with the colours and see what they did to each other and within the little area of the canvass I gradually realised that the moods and tensions were set up by these blocks of colour and their positions. Limiting myself seemed to open up more possibilities. The paintings range in size from a few centimetres up to two metres by one and a half metres, the small ones have a gem-like quality, the large ones began as images of the smaller ones, but I soon realised they were totally different. Their impact seems to be either meditative or they appear to expand. I'm still working on this!!