It's probably worth noting that there has been a slow return to figuration in the work. To amplify this fact, I came across this statement just yesterday, from the late British painter, Roger Hilton: Abstraction has been due not so much to a positive thing but to the absence of a valid image. Abstraction in itself is nothing. It is only a step towards a new figuration, that is, one which is more true... For an abstract painter there are two ways out or on: he must give up painting and take up architecture, or he must reinvent figuration. 
In my case, it is true to say that form has arisen out of abstraction over the last six months or so, but I 'm starting to think that for the work to be 'successful' or resolved there needs to be a greater balance between the two.