My work begins with images taken from the world around me – found images of surfaces, textures, colours, sometime much as I found them but often “taken for a walk”, to borrow a phrase. I use what we most often have to hand, mostly a mobile phone – hence the “digital art on the run” moniker.

My eye is drawn to the abstract, and I take delight in exploring how far I can transform an image to create a different way of seeing. Although the result I strive for is an abstract, I like to work from real world images. In this way, my images retain an organic, “memory”, of the real world which provides a hook for the viewer’s imagination.

Increasingly I transform these images with mixed media and collage to add further layers of abstraction. Blending, collaging or float mounted multiple images, scanned materials and artifacts as well as tradition paints have all been used; so perhaps not so digital at all.