I have been inspired by the concept of palimpsest in which something that has been reworked continues to bear the visible traces of its earlier form. I have always been fascinated by the notion of an artwork that holds within itself its own history and previous incarnations: the past folding itself into the present. My last exhibition was titled The layers that lie beneath. I took already completed large textured oil paintings and painted new works, using glazes, over those paintings.

I found that the underlying colour and texture sometimes remained intact or peeped through the new layers. The palimpsests manifested themselves therefore in varied and unpredictable forms, even to me. It was extraordinarily gratifying to find myself surprised by the processes of my own creativity.