Primarily an investigation into the mysterious relationship between consciousness and materiality, my work engages with the phenomenal world in an attempt to 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. I view all my work, not as ‘a painting or an object’ but as areas where energy is concentrated and shaped by touch, time and memory. 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 all elements of my life (past/present - both the same) including, but not limited to, recirculated paintings, cardboard packaging, wrapping, old fabric, found items, clay and resin. All these textural aspects work as both extensions of and vital liberators to my painting process.

Despite sculptural dimensions though, I am always working within the pictorial space of the imaginary: that zone 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.