I have been painting ‘thought forms’, using the canvas as a space for automatic drawing, where physical, spiritual and less structured ideas act as a starting point. The drawings play out, compete, evolve, churn and invade; form bulges out of shape, weaves with line, colour mashes together to form brown, grey and deep visceral tones that contrast with the pure, tube-squeezed and clean. On the canvas, drawing processes develop to hold outline and developed, fleshy, scrubbed, built up muscle that alludes to the physical. Although I lean into line work of cartooned explosions, thought and speech bubbles, my game is to keep the imagery in the realm imaginative, non-figurative play.