Indefinite interior impulses to engage with materiality are the stimulus for what I do. Process feeds position, and things made are rhizomatic sites where an understanding of self in world is constantly approached. The paradox is that we exist in our phenomenal world as finite objects but in an ‘unknowable’ infinity that contains an unidentified energy that gives rise to all mass. In explorations of 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.

My original painting practice expanded after a period where my ‘self’ had vacated the work after a period of stagnation. My resolve became to keep my creativity open ended and a product of my own relationship with world. I focused on materials, shapes and general ‘things’ which are embroidered and interwoven in the fabric of my historical/experiential self and I also began to use the detritus of my daily life (recirculated paintings, cardboard packaging, wrapping, old fabric, found items). These elements now work as both extensions of, and vital disruptors to, painting, enlivening me by keeping improvisation and freedom present as I work across and with different surfaces.

Whichever ‘dimension’ 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.