Painting offers a way of investigating aspects of human experience that resist language. My recent practice is centred on examining an enduring question:

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What are the forces that animate us and give us life? 

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Rather than seeking answers through representation or narrative, I use abstraction as a way to explore the relationship between consciousness, emotional and physical capacities, perception, and the ways these shape our experience of the world.

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Although every work begins with a similar intention, the painting continually presents new conditions to which I respond. It is this evolving dialogue that gives each work its own character.

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Rather than working towards a predetermined image, I remain attentive to the changing dialogue between my perception, my emotional and physical state, and the intuition that accompanies each act of mark-making.

 

Decisions emerge in response to the painting as it unfolds, allowing each work to reveal relationships that could not have been anticipated in advance.

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I believe painting can communicate forms of understanding that lie beyond the descriptive capacity of language. Rather than prescribing meaning, the work remains open, inviting viewers to encounter it through their own experience.

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Language enables us to describe the world with extraordinary precision, yet some of the most significant aspects of human experience remain resistant to explanation: the subtle and not so subtle currents that shape our experience of being alive. ​

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For me, painting is a way of remaining present to the constantly changing relationship between our inner lives and the world around us. 

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In this sense, the paintings are not intended to explain experience, but to embody it. They seek to make permanent the signatures of fleeting moments; creating enduring records that might otherwise pass unnoticed.

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The paintings do not seek to offer answers or fixed interpretations. They intend to create a space in which viewers may recognise something of their own experience—and, perhaps, their connection to something beyond themselves.