Seeing Red” is the title for an exhibition I haven’t yet had and may never produce. It lives in my head waiting for the requisite number of related and consistent canvases to materialize: red as the excitement of Chinese New Year, red as the colour for passion and love associated with valentine’s day , red as anger, “being in the red” as colour of financial distress, red for Christmas just passed So many passions and so many ways to explore one colour.

Chishingtan Temple, Taiwan

A shamanic mentor and friend has talked about the importance of “passion and trust” in life. As painters we need trust to abandon ourselves to creative intuition, and passion is what drives us to ecstasy. Red is definitely my colour.