John Renshaw



Paintings provide opportunities for both planned action and improvisation in response to an increasingly varied range of visual experiences, both actual and remembered. This process, modified largely by intuition, also acknowledges the significant role of the medium in the generation of possibilities. Paintings and drawings may stand as metaphors or analogies for experience but also function as catalysts, stimulating memories or unexpected associations. Such issues arise not only during the process of creating the work, but also during periods of reflection following its completion. At this point, the paintings exist not only as visual propositions in themselves but may then serve as signifiers confirming further correspondences with the visible world and prompting a collection of related drawings and photographs. This process continues to raise questions concerning relationships between alternative forms of visual representation.