My painting is primarily based on formal elements and my concern is creating and influencing the way pictorial space is read. I do not create the three dimensional illusion of ‘real’ physical space; instead I produce a space that can only be entered optically, a space in which the mark making and the forms on the canvas direct the viewers’ eye.  My influences are transcribed into a purely visual language, consequently their narrative loses its potency leaving much of my work indifferent to its context. 
 
Nevertheless in some of the paintings, highly reflective surfaces force interplay between the works and the space that they inhabit.  By producing optical spaces that mirror the physical world around them and incorporate the viewer’s own reflection, I disrupt the rigidity of Greenbergian flatness and this is an area I want to explore further.
 
In other pieces the relationship to kitsch manifests itself through the lurid choice of palette or the tendency to draw inspiration from objects considered anti-aesthetic.  The integrity of the drawing and technical approaches involved in my practice both mitigate against and highlight this relationship, creating a tension fruitful for development.  
 
A further tension is formed in the work through the contrast of very precise mark making with a fluid approach to colour and space. Recently I have begun create sculptural drawings using marks and negative space formed from paper that has been ripped, reassembled and stitched causing it to buckle & strain,a further exploration of the interaction between flatness

and depth.