The Shape of Time

I have used this title for paintings that are not readily part of a series. They are thoughts and reflections at a moment in time, and if they are connected it is, I hope, through ideas and evocations. It is also an homage to ‘The Shape of Time’ by George Kubler (Yale University Press 1962). His book, discovered when I was a student, is the singular most influential book I have read about the nature of art and meaning, subverting the conventional idea of a linear art history.

A glimpse of the sky in a tarnished mirror, a landscape in a romantic turmoil, an impression of the vivid colours of a Persian miniature, all moments from “…the useless, beautiful and poetic things of the world.”