Self Portrait with Imprinted, Ill-Fitting Bra and Stockings Painting

Taken as a whole, the work I’ve produced over the years probably puts me in the ‘narrative camp’ as an artist, but not obviously so. To make sense of my images, you most likely need to piece them together for yourself - for me, the ongoing process in practice relying on suggestion and dislocated form to evoke multiple readings.   The starting point for a work is no less diverse. Drawn to an array of ‘subject matter’, it is the constructed world where I find my motivation lies. Film and TV, Religion and Family, Urban and Rural topography, it is things such as these which have significantly shaped who I am today, and this which acts as both subject and vehicle for the work to develop and evolve.   Without doubt, my strategies and how I respond to a piece in progress is personal, though not autobiographical in conventional understanding. For one such example, religion has been a topic I have returned to time and again, though I hold no religious beliefs myself. Rather, the subject explores my encounters and response to the daily rituals living with those I have been deeply involved with over the years who live with strong beliefs themselves. ​ All in all, the initial motivation for a piece may well remain and develop but more often than not be discarded, guiding the dialogue back and forth until a wider cultural perspective emerges, only then to throw back the next line of enquiry.