About

I predominantly produce paintings from packaging and other found objects.  I make models of buildings or structures, which I find interesting and I also like to use packaging as a ready-made that has an uncanny resemblance to real buildings.   The use of other certain discarded objects as subject matter is another part of my practice.  I select items that are interesting and detailed in their own right such as foam packaging fillers or screwed up packaging labels.  My aim is to distill the beauty in these subject matters through the medium of paint.  A beauty that is often overlooked.

The models that I make are not exact recreations of real buildings or structures.  I aim to create the essence of the building or structure, without paying too much attention to every tiny detail, as the detail comes from the loosely made physical model itself.  The buildings and structures I choose are often solid, plain and in-ornate, such as Emerald City from the Wizard of Oz.  I try to emphasize the beauty in the crude details of the model or found object with descriptive marks of paint.

I consider painting to be very intimate practice.  Expressing my subject matter with intricate marks of paint and subtle colour nuances, that are both flowing and rhythmical, help to create artworks, that are detailed and descriptive, but also conveys my sense of a stylised beauty in art and my passion for the medium.