Oil and cold wax medium paintings on birchwood cradled panels, wood panels, or canvas panels.

Some are in wood frames.

Cold wax medium added to oil paint enables it to ‘set up’ a little, allowing many layers of different colours to be built up fairly quickly on the substrate.

By scraping, scratching and dissolving into the layers, - in fact ‘excavating’ like an archaeologist - beautiful textures and nuances are revealed.

More paint is then layered up, and again scraped into, until the beginning of a composition evolves.

This process of construction and deconstruction continues, sometimes over months, until the painting is resolved.

Once the painting is fully set up it is robust and waterproof, and just needs the occasional dusting with a soft cloth.