Statement

I often take as starting points the parks and other green areas in urban environments (real or imagined) as settings for recreating (reinterpreting) narratives from cultural history.

I see my paintings as portrayals of (primal) characters and spaces which evoke social narrative (religion or myth) but are rendered subjective through the manipulation of context. This involves the framing of a dialogue between the 'natural' and 'unnatural', the real and the imagined, and between the environment and the figures within it.

At every part of the process I try to achieve a balance between the figurative and abstract elements, the comic and the grotesque, adult perception and childhood memory, and between the personal and the collective.

Throughout the process I try to find new ways to manipulate the paint and allow the material to develop the imagery and the ideas