Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature ... Observation is considered the key to natural science. 
As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience.
The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a paradox of chaos and order in one. 
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces. 
I think this lack of a center has something to do with the loss of certainties that Christianity had to offer. 
Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one. 
I work with nature, although in completely new terms. 