About

Inspiration for my paintings comes through responding to the everyday experience and the responsive play with materials. I look at a lot of organically formed images just in everyday life working in a forensic approach, archiving and taking photos of things I see on the street, also working from images online, magazines and movies and then putting them in the painted realm.

Within my own paintings, I am dissecting the work down into its basic elements. I am trying to create a sensory experience. Giving the maximum emotional effect with minimal paint application but appearing as a build-up painted image. 

This series of works have openness in the painting, not confining with a certain genre or style. They work in pairs, some representing landscapes, some are image paintings and others straight abstraction. But all coming from a similar place no matter how the image differs. A focus on what I want my paintings to look and feel like to my audience, not giving answers but raising questions and having an emotional effect on them. the decisions made to leave a painting in the essence of discovery demonstrating intellectual flexibility. Restraining as a tool of subtraction and form of mark-making.