About my work

I am interested in the bridge between the so called reality of objects and things out in the world and the abstraction of colour, shape,pattern and texture developed in painting. My subject matter can be anything I notice of visual interest, whether it is a colour combination, the effect of light, an arrangement of shapes, a texture or the essence of a place. I often use the camera to focus on ordinary everyday things around me. The photographs, along with drawing and observation, give me the information to start a painting or screenprint. The image, already perhaps ambiguous, is translated into a new composition. I work intuitively as the subject evolves, not quite knowing where the picture will finish, but responding to the overall composition to make a sensation of space and colour.I want to give the viewer a resonance of subjective emotions, their association to a particular shape, colour, or line, which incited me to make the work originally.