As a painter the natural world is intensely meaningful to me. As a consequence I intend my work to be informed by the pervasiveness, the strangeness and the complexity of nature. My interest in this world extends beyond the mere superficial recording of phenomena from the New Zealand landscape and the human form, into a personal dialogue with the subject and my painterly process.

This process of building and scraping back the paint to reveal the remnants and shadows of previous layers reflects a desire to convey an enigmatic tension and the ebb and flow which may occur between perception and conception. This reflects my engagement with the expressive power of the unconscious and its ability to make the world mysterious to the everyday eye.

My paintings act as a containment for unexpected feelings which might otherwise be uncontainable. These are highlighted in sudden and dramatic changes to structure and approach, from circuitous and delicate to brusque and ruthless.