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My work is at one level a product of pleasure in technique – I enjoy the physicality of making it. The use of tight and as I see it, elegant, sensual line provokes visual pleasure and is a means of distillation of the qualities of subject-matter; other techniques indicate alternative sensualities. My use of drawing techniques varies in objective application. Sometimes the work is ‘evidence’ of a period of physical activity, a subjective engagement which is revealed through the eye; always it struggles with the impossibility of description. I am engaged by the qualities of the flowers that I have been drawing and painting in recent years. The realities and contradictions inherent in gradual decay of the lilies are explored through techniques which I feel both threaten and expose the danger of cliché in the subject and in the work. I am searching for a tension within potentially banal forms which will result in work reflecting its precarious nature. Photographs point to the fleeting nature of experience and physicality. David Minton 2009 My work recently, since the Sparrow paintings, has become abstract, or rather it has lost its figurative element. But there remains a feeling that the paintings have a content. It develops throught the acts and reactions that construct the work.December 2009 
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