These paintings are quite different from my other recent work but I feel this is my natural and most enjoyable way of working. I apply the paint in an intuitive, reactive way, enjoying the properties of the paint and letting it do it’s own thing, rather than carefully planning out my composition and colour palette. This is the way I worked on the lonely house paintings from 2011 and 2012. However then I was working in oil and these new paintings were made with acrylics. It’s taken me a while to get to grips with using acrylics in this way. Initially I tried mixing them with various mediums. This produced some interesting effects but introducing another element into the acrylic painting before I really understood the properties of the acrylics alone just made things more complicated and confusing. It’s something I will probably try again in the future but at the moment I’m just working with acrylics and water. These paintings were made on canvas mounted on board.