Ink, pencil and watercolour

89 x 89 x 25 cm

Top Table is part of a body of work that reflects upon socio-political themes. The painting describes some form of celebration behind closed doors, perhaps suggestive of an Epstein-like milieu. The image evolved from a sequence of random procedures. Objects and figures emerged by the action of pareidolia. In other words, ‘the eye’ detected coherence within a chaotic surface and then constructed a scenario that ‘the hand,’ drawing on acquired making skills, proceeded to resolve. This process of discovery within the act of painting has, for me, a conceptual valency; it parallels the formation of conspiracy theories: both involve the selection and marshalling of resonant data from a formless matrix.