Cherry Blossom, Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow Painting

Born Oct 1962, Kirkuk, Iraq.
Presently living and working in Glasgow, Scotland.

On the most basic level, my work reflects my enduring fascination with painting and drawing. These are activities I have always very much enjoyed, and my fascination with them has developed into an interest in the mechanics of drawing and painting. The formal aspects of the production of a piece are therefore important to me.

On another level my work reflects my fascination with the physical world I inhabit, and my emotional response to it. These two things are perhaps inextricably connected, since the subjects I choose invariably have some symbolic significance, which might either be very personal, or more universally understandable.

There is also a sense in which my work is expressionist, and fulfils a need, in a way that is difficult to adequately explain. On this level my work is more visceral, and my approach more sensual in a way that somehow is in accord with, or reflective of my inner emotional processes.

My work is most successful, I feel, when I can achieve some kind of balance between these elements, when they combine effectively in a painting.