"This is the first exhibition of work in which I have moved furthest from a subject or literal meaning and towards the intrinsic value of painting itself. If I use a subject or a theme it is only to have something to hang the painting on." 

"The textures in my paintings are the textures of a conversation. If we overhear a conversation in a language we do not understand we can still, intuitively understand the essence of it.”  - Ian Sharpe