statement

Drawing is fundamental to me, a way of being in the world.

I am interested in cities as sites of human energy in flux. My paintings embrace both the mundane and the poetic aspects of the city, within the confines of the built environment and then sometimes into wilder places of water, forest and land. Sometimes the paintings are paeans to the city’s resilient beauty.

The paintings become arenas in which the way that I work echoes the city itself: the unpredictability, the search for order out of chaos, that comes to express itself either in highly layered paintings, jazzy in their embrace of evolving abstract form; or the paintings happen just like drawings representing a gathering of energy, gestural and fluid, often leaving space and empty, unworked areas or raw canvas allowing breath and a sense of freedom to prevail amidst the swathes of colour and mark making.