My paintings are inspired by landscapes, but I work to evoke sensations rather than tangible realities. The process for me is about finding rather than making - an exploration beginning with often chaotic, gestural mark-making and brush-work and gradually simplifying the imagery, fusing ideas and feelings through layers of paint and ink and letting the past live beneath the surface. I don’t have a preconceived idea of how the finished work will look.  Rather, my aim is to find intuitively a hybrid kind of visual order that resonates – to create a space for viewers to immerse themselves in, allowing room for the unknown and the inexplicable. 

Mostly I use mixed media and mixed methods, including acrylic (with lots of clear medium), ink and Conte crayon, and develop the work through semi-transparent layering, or wet-on-wet brushwork, or through print-making techniques, or combinations of these, while shaping and punctuating with line and gestural marks.   

Artistic influences are wide a varied, including the expressionism of artists like Richard Diebenkorn and Ivon Hitchens, the “informalism” of Antoni Tàpies and Nicolas de Staël, colour field painters like Helen Frankenthaler and Mark Rothko, and the visual culture of the First Nations peoples.