My work explores the tension between painted space and my experience of actual space. The picture plane can hold both presence and absence, colour will create or collapse depth, rhythm and gesture will evoke momentum or stillness. Light is generated, arising through layering and accumulation, and space remains unfixed, shifting moment by moment, mark by mark.
I draw on a longstanding fascination with architecture, design, and engineering - disciplines that mirror painting’s concern with structure, balance and rigour. They inform how I think about weight and stability, precision and improvisation, permanence and flux.
Material is central to this process. It is the weight of paint, the grain of canvas, and the friction between decisions that shape the outcome. Each piece becomes a record of an encounter with surface, substance, time, and purpose.
What matters most is the making, the full immersion in the ongoing negotiation between hand, medium, and objective. My paintings are not representations but traces - evidence of sustained, attentive engagement with the enterprise of painting itself.