Matthew says he's not nostalgic but he very much is. Talks about everything he isn't from the past but he very much is. When you talk about what you're trying to achieve, unfortunately you become what you are against because you very aware of it then it comes into you
there's a reason behind pattern/ structures.. not because we like it.. .it's because it's about survival in nature and understanding what nature does to create patterns so we can organize in our mind what it means for its purpose. Not because 'it feels right to us' as Matthew suggests.
From first seeing a painting at the Walker Gallery, I do love their work - For me there is a slight nostalgic quality Matthew didn't mention, and it is mosaic ... the patterns of low relief tiles found (at least in my memory) in public art, the foyers of blocks of flats, colleges or subways (pedestrian underpasses), in the 1950s and 1960s in Great Britain?
