Everything I do — the unbound forms, the soft staining, the shifting drips and flows — is intended to create ambiguity, a quiet sense of openness and permeability. These works are not confrontational; they are an invitation. They ask the viewer to step inside a space that feels both like a beginning and an ending, a place that may echo where we come from, or where we might ultimately return.

My paintings are not abstractions of the visible world. They do not reference the tangible or the recognisable. Instead, they exist as non-figurative entities, free from narrative or representation. They are not of something — they simply are something. Self-contained, autonomous presences, each work stands as its own  living essence.

Rodney Beecher Roberts