Primarily an investigation into the mysterious relationship between consciousness and materiality, my work is steeped in individual freedom. Since I began painting the driving force has been to communicate with the phenomenal world and express a personal vision of its inexplicable beauty.

The surfaces of our natural world conceal more than they reveal. In explorations of surface, colour, shape and form, I look for an esoteric expression within mundane materials and mark making - a ‘something’ within things that simultaneously transcends the object. Understanding ‘what’ appears transiently - allowing only intangible glimpses that are available to perception contextually and provisionally. My way of seeing and engaging with the ‘things’ of existence (seen/unseen) is mine and I try to preserve the life force of that against what Robert Sardello calls the ‘death forces of production and consumption’ which commodify even human spirit, in an increasingly technologicised world.

My original painting practice expanded some years ago when, after a period of constraint I began to incorporate the detritus of my daily life (recirculated paintings, cardboard packaging, wrapping, old fabric, found items). After a time I added clay to the mix, for its malleability and colour/shape potential. These elements now work as both extensions of, and vital disruptors to, my paintings.

Whichever ‘dimension’ though, I am always working within pictorial space : that place which is infinitely larger than the physical one it occupies, and what is co-created will always be some kind of balancing act, between structure and the un-nameable…..part of an ongoing conversation with materiality.