The characters within my paintings often appear to be captured in moments of intimate self disclosure. In this way, they live the suspended existence of people held in that mental space in which the sensation of making discoveries is born or forms. This constitutes the objective ‘seeing’ of the self in relation to the subjective context.

I would say that the consistent referent within my paintings always points to the concept of storytelling, but in its capacity as an action in which we participate rather than as information that we seek to communicate. Therefore the form of the paintings seeks to give visual correlation to the simultaneous convergence occurring in the moments in which we recognize ourselves as occupying the multiple roles of storyteller, listener and subject.

I believe that we exist in the world in relation to one another. The ways in which we come to know ourselves are informed as much by autonomy and personal agency as they are by the ways in which we locate and identify each other. Therefore, we live simultaneously in many spheres dependant on the roles we occupy within those different spheres: often equally influenced by the assumptions made of us by other people as by our own desires for ourselves as individuals.

This directly relates to the notion of identity in terms of the physical body, the mind, and the spiritual as an entwined story determined and cultivated in individual and communal ways.