I am interested in how the material, tangible, representational aspects of the work are informed by subtext which are discoverable by degrees, but, which are only slowly being formulated beyond an abstract feeling. I'm drawn to the tension between what is seen and what is felt, between surface and depth, where images become vessels for something less easily named.
And of course, sometimes I just draw stuff - The unspoken clarity of a mark is...
The emotional precision of Sylvia Plath, the raw formalism oRobert Motherwell are strong influences, along side the spiritual architectures Hilma af Klint and poetic assemblages of Paul Joostens — Artists who move between the visible and invisible with conviction and mystery.
