On my latest paintings: These minute aspects of ecosystem, slices of life and death.

Small pieces of ecosystems, captured with a digital camera, interpreted/modified on the computer and used as a basis for paintings.

The basic images have little to do with the reality that I experience when I am inspired to capture. They are mere visual records that remind me. Somehow I am able to see beyond the visual at the time of capture, this is the inspiration that I want to communicate in my painting.

But the difficulty is recapturing that inspiration later on when I get around to doing the painting. Practically speaking, this can be months, years later.

Maybe in defense of this, the time between capture and art creation serves as a creative intellectual sorting process, determining not only what it was that inspired me, but how I am to execute and communicate.

I want to then glorify, iconise the subject: Nature as it is, although heightening the interest through use of composition or strong dramatic shadows. To draw the viewer in, to make the viewer want to stay and absorb, as I felt when I first saw the scene and then experienced the long creative process, hours of my own time captured in every brush stroke.

These minute aspects of ecosystem, slices of life and death. Often quite humble scenes that most would ignore. The paintings would then not necessarily be overtly "in your face" - they may be quite quiet and subtle.

I aspire to the creation of "majestic grace" - an artwork that has its own strong life as per many of the paintings I saw at the Louvre - that transend time.