ART | Paintings | Early Abstracts

“I engaged in abstract painting at the end of 1979 beginning of 1980. I was still an art student at the time, but I realised that I was getting dissatisfied with representational art for its own sake as I was experiencing it at art school. Observing concrete reality and captivating it on canvas as faithful as possible was presented to me in my instruction as the ultimate, but I disagreed. Instead, at home, in my own studio, I started to explore shape, colour, pigment and gesture. Very few of these early attempts survive, but today when I look at them, I see the determination I had in exploring the unknown and the unfamiliar. These seemed and still seems to be far more exciting.”