The artworks I create stand on a shifting border between a corporeal, physical reality and a fantastical, distorted one. I wish to invite the viewer to experience this as a kinesthetic bridge. Many of these works are large scale so as to project this created world into the real one. Smaller scale pieces are more intimate places to step into and inhabit.

The media I use are integral to achieving these visual conceptions. In one series of drawings I use graphite and charcoal in various forms (powdered, stick and then burnished or not) with modelling paste on a flat-black ground. The contrasting shimmery and flat and/or feathery and weighty aspects of the variegated surface imbue the work with an ephemeral quality. In another series of mono prints (some with pastel) an atmospheric and lyrical presence is attained.

My most recent work has been created in digital format using programs like Photoshop and Expresii. Many of the works begin with sourcing a very small natural texture or pattern. I then copy, flip and invert this in numerous interconnected repetitions to create an entirely new pattern. I further manipulate this pattern anamorphically with results referring to human, animal or inanimate forms.

There is a dichotomy Established between the monumental quality of the finished work and the tiny, intricate patterns that it is built upon. The viewer experiences a vacillation between the weighty, imposing large-scale form seen from a distance, and its buoyant and ephemeral presence seen close up. These divergent and contrasting qualities express my enduring interest in creating work that reflects the simultaneously vast and granular nature of the world.