Explore your mix of media

I have never felt satisfied with the traditional media of oil, acrylic and watercolour. Even as a student of fine art I felt the need to somehow distress the surface of my paintings to give them more texture by scratching into them, or enriching them with collage elements.

We all have certain epiphanies along the way that take us down one or other trajectory as artists. The most significant epiphany for me was the one involving the landlord of the flat where I lived while a student. One day he was decorating the bathroom and filling the cracks in pink plaster with a white filler. I thought those fine lines, the overlaying of chalky textures and colours, the mystery of layers barely visible below other sanded-down layers, to be just about