JP's Description: It's so long ago now that I don't remember much other than I'd spent perhaps 18 months working over a small series of oil paintings that focussed on simple forms that became studies in colour. Day after day I'd work and re-work the surface until somehow I'd reached some sort of resolution. The series (mostly lost) represents for me an important time in my development, and became the precursor to when the paintings started to take on 3-dimensional aspects, eventually breaking out into real space as sculptural statements.