My work is primarily an investigation into the mysterious relationship between consciousness and materiality and subtending that is the contextual relativity of perception……of everything.

As far as how we ‘see’ things, 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. Human perception (unaided) can only engage with its world at the surface of its things - surfaces that 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 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. Slipping around, in between and sometimes incorporating different materialities encourages improvisation, across all modalities, and frees up my creativity in general.

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.