Provenance

The subjects in my paintings have travelled with me for years, slowly changing shape and meaning.
For me ideas in painting are like glaciers, not flash floods and so I have painted many of them before in other forms. My works often take place at night or perhaps approaching night, a time that can also bring the anticipation of dreams so it’s a fertile place for a willing imagination.

The paintings are as much about an evocation of a thing as the thing itself. They have their roots in my own experience but also in the literature I read and the films I watch. It’s important to me that fact and fiction can coexist in this imagined world, through this I hope to reach a sort of shared cultural memory.
The associative imagery I find in these sources serve to deepen the meaning for me; there is a sense of the shared dream of maker and viewer and so I hope when people look at my work, they find something of themselves there too.