Certain themes, and techniques related to their expression, are beginning to evolve in my work. Paramount among these are the relationships and tensions between nature and technology, and between the spiritual and material dimensions in mankind. The materials and methods I use in my work are bound up closely with these themes. It is important to me that the materials used, such as product packaging as a ground for the paintings, and everyday objects as a basis for the sculptures, are transformed, opening up alternatives, new areas of feeling and ideas.

My method for making paintings has been to use techniques which encourage the possibilities for improvisation, where conditions are fertile for new discoveries and the potential is there to move in altogether unexpected directions. This has been achieved primarily through the paintings being constructed of panels of museum-board, which, while the painting is being worked on, can be moved around, cut to different sizes, painted over or discarded ( perhaps to appear in another painting!).

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