My work probes the expanded field of Painting Practice engaging with ideas of the natural world, everyday lived experience and how the found/made and placed object intersects this territory.

I make, rather than paint a painting, this physical response is an important element of the work that is evident in the handmade logbooks, in the reworked amended and layered oil on Linen Paintings and the object placed works.

My subject matter is an aggregate of multiple influences and sources particularly my immediate environment, which we have all become familiar with in these lockdown times.

The Oil on Linen paintings portray this new state of mind and how fragments, apparitions and the combination of recurring reworked and existing motifs can suggest new narratives and storylines such as the use of plant imagery in Phases and Stages and Ghost Plant.

The space and sound of our immediate environment becomes more relevant and dominant as it agitates against the invading virtual world. The Logbooks are in part, observed responses and experiences of the textures of the lived moment, the sound of the cuckoo, the glint of sun on a fence, the touch of sediment or the flash of colour on water.

In a way the logbooks save an experience or feeling through paint and then it is revealed in a new form for the viewer to encounter.