Process and play are key to my work. Process in the sense of searching, finding, destroying and re-making. Play in the sense of exploring, but also the play of ideas drawn from all the arts - history, literature and music - sometimes overshadowed by world affairs.
Visually, I am intrigued by rhythm, texture and space, and by the relationships between mass and line, and painting, drawing and writing. The interface between abstraction and figuration fascinates me: art as Rorschach test.
In recent work, I have drawn on motifs from Bosch and Breugel, exploring how their fantastical world resonates with ours. Icarus, tumbling in the void, symbolises alientation and confusion in this era of political turmoil, failing capitalism, climate change and AI. Bosch's birds and weird creatures strike an unsettling note; a discordant shriek in an increasingly unfamiliar landscape.
My process is rooted in drawing, particularly from old master paintings: Rubens, Veronese, Goya, Rembrandt, El Greco. I then develop these studies in new directions, working from my imagination, and taking inspiration from words and music.