Photographer: Will Russell - Guardian Express

The Work

My work is consciously non-representational. It is not an abstraction of a prior image, but reflects a search for the order found within chaos: an attempt to capture meaning and beauty within an instant - the timeless moment.

I am interested in the emergence and re-emergence of form within the painting; the interplay between surface and subsurface. I work intuitively, with little or no initial plan other than a general approach and colour direction, allowing the work to evolve in the process as it will.

I am concerned with texture, brush-stroke and the quality of paint itself. I work with space and colour, and Perth - and the West Coast generally, with its clear light and broad horizons – is an absorbing source and inspiration.