…it's still manana in Portugal, so no news yet…it's unreal that when the gallery first contacted me via Axisweb they had no idea that my work is partly influenced by the Portuguese landscape. I'd spent some time there on my uncle's estate pruning his vines.
One side of my family is Portuguese and the gallery is near to where they used to live.
'Graham's response to landscape is contemplative. Creation becomes a challenge as every mark is considered as the aesthetic process unravels towards sublime resolution. Graham's preoccupations are undoubtedly formal, but his technique relies on more than simply a conscious arrangement of shape and colour. Graham aims to intuitively distil the essence of his visual experience in a much more unlimited way. Landscape provides the ideal motif; unrestricted by figures or buildings, an exploration is permitted which ultimately pervades pure creation.' Sally-Ann Schilling. MA History of Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Art Historian and former Lecturer Tate Modern, London
