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Many subjects - landscapes, theatre, mythology, ideas, emotions, abstractions, people Although I put names to what I do, this is not definitive.
There is more to a painting or sculpture than design, colour and visual representation; there is always, because we are human and think, the message.
It can be simple - this is a pleasant scene, or a beautiful face. Enjoy looking at it (it may be disturbing or ugly - be disquieted, or something . .  or at any rate be something you weren't a minute ago and wouldn't be but for this painting).

It can also, on another level, be evocative - then the scene, or the face, is a reminder.

From this level of thinking and looking the painting or sculpture is largely in your hands.

The artist succeeds or fails in his attampts at empathy by his choice, and use, of what he puts inside the frame or within the sculpture which then in turn effect the thoughts and emotions of the viewer.

And, again, there are levels of empathy, understanding, thinking, viewing . . .

You may be taken to the place: watching that sunset, meeting that person, experiencing that event.  Or, a strictly personal one, - I am here, am part of this, that is me, that is from MY life!

And / or the painting may embody for you the peace and sadness of all sunsets; the inevitability of, and anger against, old age; the beauty and innocence of youth; the terrible finality or perhaps unavoidable repetition of this one particular event.

The joy of a painting is that it is always there, waiting unchanged, to be explored.

I would like you to find all these things in, and do all these things with my paintings and sculptures.

Take the time to help create something that was not there before by the addition of your feelings to what I have done. And you can go back again and view it at that same level, or experience it at any other level.

Or - all at once'

         Or simply -

                  find it a pleasing design of pleasant colour . . . . .

Empathy

Not to think - to look
For the line,
Or the feel of the form,
The substance, the shape.
Feel the lines of emotion
and vibration.
Use finger tips, and nerve ends
and touch.