Whether I am painting a still life or an intuitive landscape I am using the same handwriting - it's just at a different scale. Zoom-in on the pattern on a piece of fabric in my still life studies and the flick of the paintbrush will have the same identity as the sweeping stroke that depicts the river across a metre wide board. Mark making is the primary process whether drawing, painting or printmaking.

When I draw freely into a painting, or let my hand work automatically across an intuitive drawing I call this scribing - not because it resembles actual writing but because of the physical act, forming motifs in the same way that finger muscles choreograph to form letters - conscious but instinctive at the same time - the resulting line assimilates to a notion of typography, a visual vocabulary of forms that communicate to the viewer…

in flow
continuous line
asemic
motif
hieroglyph
annotation
shorthand
visual language