I don’t consider it to be the artist’s job to labour over the role and status of art, but there should be certain ‘unseen’ factors at the back of his mind that may determine the strength and potency of his work. These are essential qualities that make up the ‘language of art’. This is part of the ‘objective creative process’ from which this ancient sapience can run, free from political, religious or moral agenda. These criteria are mere ingredients for compiling, understanding and interpretation of the key issues of the day. They are tools that help engage with the audience. The artist’s job is a critical balancing of these tools to bring about a rich and meaningful understanding of what it means to be alive now. This may be a spiritual invocation and the world may be moved on by it...

When the artist ignores how art enters the lives of people then what he is doing is little more than a game. The nature of art is to nourish and renew - to offer hope, not in some woolly, ill-defined divine context that is ‘fudged’ in the personal nor in a gentrified aesthetic way that is perfunctory nor in a reactionary role that divides people, but in a potent, challenging and wise way. This is not the business of corporate-angst fashion or the foibles of the day clinging like dingleberries to the Pepsi-Max culture, but the connecting of heart and soul to a breathing world. There is a certain responsibility - it is not a ‘free for all’ only available for all.