My work is underpinned by an interest in the way the body looks, the emphasis is to communicate a sense of ‘creatureliness’, inspired by Ernest Becker’s description of the human condition. A speculative attitude and freedom to explore, from conception to completion is essential; I follow a methodology of inspecting and learning unselfconsciously- as a child would perhaps, without pre-conceived ideas of exactly what I want the viewer to see, feel and think. Recognising particular elements which ‘work’ during the process of making a painting, then stopping, leaving these visible, would not be possible had I circumscribed ideas about my viewer, or indeed my own intentions. Therefore ‘Thinking through doing’ is an overarching concept which motivates my practice.

-‘The most that any one of us can seem to do is to fashion something- an object or ourselves- and drop it into the confusion, make an offering of it so to speak’ (E Becker. The Denial of Death ,1973).