I am an Australian Artist, living and working in South Australia. Over the years I have frequently been asked to produce an 'artists' statement'. Now I just put that my work is the statement but, when pushed, trot out the following which I wrote many years ago:

"It has always been essential that my work is accessible. However, in order to prevent superficial interpretations of the `pictures’, their realism is disciplined by form and composition, there are no obscure alternative `meanings’, each object represents only itself, and the temptations to use surrealism, obscure symbols or portentous images are avoided."