Often starting on a dark warm ground, I paint, in oil, with both direct and indirect methods to make my pictures. The paintings explore form and use of paint and, on a semi-narrative/representational level, they explore meanings in our everyday lives. The act of making paintings is both physical and conceptual. It allows me to discover and define the world around me while simultaneously creating places of my own. Often this leads to scenes of strange pause. Scenes where forms may line up in a peculiar way, or images may come to represent a feeling or a puzzlement as to what has happened, or what is about to happen. The process of making paintings in this way, to me, is a productive way to reconcile the gap between the outside world and the thoughts I have about this world.
