
The compelling energy of my work is a plundering of documentation, a revisiting of people or places which are half-remembered. I am fascinated by that which can be captured by an image, and that which lies on the periphery of vision, perhaps caught in a brushstroke but never entirely contained. Moments of beauty, of intensity, of tragedy gradually become abstract source material, guiding the emotive power of my paintings.
The subject of my work is at once figurative, referring to form and character, and conceptual, exploring accumulated memories which lay dormant in the mind and which rarely if ever entirely surface. I seek to present the transitory, almost exotic feel of experiences and instances as they become blurred and augmented in the mind; to create a fusion between the intangible rush of experience and the evidence of living.
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