My notebook is about patterns and motifs. It contains coloured marks repeated in design and composition. The elements of a pattern appear in a predictable manner with discernible regularity in our natural and manufactured worlds. The two basic structures, dots and stripes, interact to form grids. As a grid takes shape it modifies the character of the individual elements to form the larger texture. If you imagine a field full of flowers – it is a field full of individual elements that contribute to the overall system. Patterns are fascinating. They are present in any medium that is adorned with design as well as in our scientific understanding of how life emerges from the interaction of simple rules. Drawing patterns is participating in the world's most ancient and prevalent artistic practice. It is learning how to weave complexity out of elementary structures. Drawing patterns is part of my artistic practice. It is a form of thinking. A drawing does not have to be finished, in the same way a thought does not need to be formalised into a precise statement. I draw out of a need to expel gathered information, to record it before it is forgotten. When I am drawing I am quiet. I slip into a mode that is automatic and relatively unthinking.