Here we see 'Circumcision' By Pollock (1942) 'Talking about Art' (1975) by Hodgkin. Both pictures though different in intent arguably refer to implied realities of experience. Certainly Pollock and Hodgkin both intimate to experience siezed and held - in circumcision one sees a kind of symbolised brutality and with Hodgkin we 'see' a transitory recall of experience. Regardless of wide debates regarding the 'shouldness' and the 'authenticity' of later work in these styles I personally find the application of paint in this way strongly compelling both to view and to do. This means I am strongly wedded to a phenomenological approach whose structural underpinnings are to be found more in psychology, anthropology,theology and neurology rather than political economy or a desire for'newness' of expression.

There is a sense also in which expressionistic work is fictive rather than mythic or symbolic. By this I mean that the painter is simply story telling and not seeking great depth of gravitas. This certainly applies to my own painting particularly at this current stage of my development- In the same way that the poet collects phrases and mimics the masters or the fiction writer practises genre by scene setting and character building I am simply trying to develop a lexicon.