A series of paintings is a bit like a conversation.  You start off with one subject, which leads you into another.  Very often in our everyday conversation we will say one thing but there may be all sorts of hidden meanings within.  We may be saying amusing and witty things, yet underneath this, there is perhaps an underlying sadness.

Within my works there are often many layers, some visible, some not.  Sometimes these layers are simplifying and clearing space so as to invite the spectator in to become a participant in the dialogue.

Many of my recent paintings refer to landscape, often with motifs such as tents and other structures.  Currently references include pathways, rivers and pools.  The stimuli for the work are part memory, part dream, part prediction.  I have to make this journey, to a new plane, in paint with all its mystery and fluid magic.  I need to go there to make sense of this world.