I first discovered nothingness while I was painting my Lake George series.  The challenge in making this work was how to create a sense of stillness, something like a meditation, which you dropped and expanded into.

For me as an artist, nothingness comes back to a state of creation which draws from a dark void, a between-worlds consciousness. 

In the process of mark making for the work I am currently producing on nothingness I move into a meditative state where I expand into space and attempt to disconnect from thought. 

In this process the work tends to create itself.

"Nothingness" was exhibited at the Brunswick Street Gallery Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia

27 Feb - 12 March 2009

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness"

- John Keats