Artist Statement

‘The replacement of a reliable world of durable objects by a world of flickering images that make it harder and harder to distinguish reality from fantasy.’ (Christopher Lasch The Culture of Narcissism)

The transient world in which we live bombards us with unfiltered imagery and information, overloading and blocking the channels that allow our thoughts and feelings to find expression. My paintings are about the search for the space in which to find meaning and a primitive need to connect once more with an environment that will feed our ‘inner core’. They set out to explore the loss of utopia and failure of modernism to connect with the human condition.

Sourcing imagery from photos, the media and old paintings/drawings, my work  anchors fiction with layers of reality reflecting a world beneath a world that we know. In apocalyptic dreamscapes, colonised by the architectural fabrications of a futuristic world, I describe the search for re-connection and attempt to deconstruct the barriers and constraints that modernism has imposed on our ability to do so.