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I like to build on the simple premise that if the work is to sincerely give something to the other; i.e not just to look like something, then something sincere has first to be given to the work.

My work revolves around ideas concerning beauty, loss, damage and renewal and the ensuing vulnerability that occurs when exposing these feelings. The tensions and contradictions that exists between containment and chaos, and the idea that beauty restores what fury has demolished, clarifies in my painting the anxiety that links the two together, a bond so fraught that it remains muted to reveal moments of calm.
 

I believe anger and fear may be expressed in a variety of ways and can even be eventually transformed into the opposite, into a sort of pictorial interpretation, one that suggests to the viewer a calmness, joy and beauty, one that which belies the rage that lies beneath, a form of passive, perhaps gendered rage, one that turns inwards instead of outwards; towards a reality that is in a continual state of flux and dislocation and the isolation that occurs between contemporary society and the natural world.