About my Work

I am driven to paint monumental figures which appear as I work, and might well be self portraits, athough I never intend them to be self referential. By distilling forms into their essence, my painting is sculptural in intent, pursuing a Modernist project of finding a ‘Universal’ figuration that transcends the confines of representational art.

Nevertheless, I am drawn to Baroque art for its dramatic quality, that speaks of the human condition. By juxtaposing this with a reductive approach to figuration, I create pareidolic surfaces upon which figural painting is sublated into and back from abstraction. Using expressive figure drawing as a point of departure, I develop ambiguous works in which background, foreground and subject are in flux, creating paintings which both have and offer agency.