The influences and preoccupations in my work are based on my response to both external and internal reality. I am attracted to subjects that reflect the passing of time; water and stone, light and reflections, shadows, the illusion of the infinite in a microcosm.

The 'real' subject is a personal response to my world through paint and medium, the attempt to capture and translate thought, feeling and experience by making marks and applying colour and texture to surface. My main concern is to find the most satisfying relationship between line and surface.

A slow cumulative process of layering, scraping, glazing, obscuring and revealing, reflects the physical relationship between act and thought. Beginnings are submerged as the work assumes its own identity, making its own demands for solution.

The paintings become a new description of place, a history of the journey taken to reach this place - a new reality with its own experience, its own physical presence.

A composite image of thoughts, memories and associations. The audience will bring their own references, with time to reflect.

Jacky Lee MA, Dip AD