Like many colleagues of my age who have been forced to dispose of their stored works due to lack of space, I have begun to clear out my paintings. I wondered how I would chop up my works from the 1970s, where to put oil paintings with cadmium inks, and plastic acrylic paintings – hazardous waste in many ways. What sounded like a distressing plan to cut the paintings into pieces, turned out to be an inspiring way to create new works. After all, throughout my career I have rearranged the plain canvases for new paintings into jigsaw-like collages. The works in the exhibition continue to explore the still topical themes of refugees, resistance to war, homelessness, and the destruction of old buildings.
Arte and Titanik are my art home, I couldn’t think of another place where to start the final stretch of my working practice. I am a long-standing member of Arte; my works were first exhibited at the Arte summer exhibition in 1973.
