I am interested in images and meanings that hinge on the psychological distinction between actual and perceived realities – the delusions of false comfort and escapist fantasy that inform a very contemporary vulnerability. I am drawn to motifs, which through their own clichés, offer up ideas about how we perceive and recognise evidence of the material versus the imagined. My work is centred on the collapse of personal utopias into the functional and the everyday. A slow time-base and layered process of recognition is central to what I do. My palette has been called cyanotic, resonant of very sterile and medicinal bleach. This quality is often arrested by pockets of pure colour, which damn any pathology the work brings to bear.

My working process tends to evolve naturally through an assimilation of motifs, which run concurrently and develop over a period of time. This fall into areas which either revolve around a particular set of ideas, or confront the viewer with complex psychological states. Dinosaurs, Fun-fair Ephemera, recording studios with staged backdrops   and disposable toys are key sources amongst others. Compounded notions of scale and an emphasis on the model as a larger indexical sign inform their selection. My titles often reflect the humorous and pathetic sentiment of the work, referring frequently to song titles and lyrics from popular music.