In a world dependent on fossil fuel, which is a limited resource, why transcribe everything we think, feel and experience to a medium that, when turned off, no longer exists?
This is why painting is essential. The simple forms created by pigments mixed with oil transcend the immaterial, illusional and virtual realms of the digital age. Long after the excess and wishfulness of the online environment has come and gone, the magic of image, feeling and intellect found in a material painting, resonates with meaning beyond the time and place in which it was created.