I am obsessed with the horizontal and vertical as a structural device, and I try as a painter to give poetic expression through this formal scaffolding, one which is disciplined and at the same time intuitive. Earlier my work was more obviously related to natural forms....however, if my painting has become more austere formally it is still concerned with poetry and it remains influenced by nature and my surroundings - for me it could not be otherwise - Alan Reynolds, 1963