My work is a visual record of my connection to my world. Many of the images come from my travels and /or my personal relationships. Other images are borrowed from a wider world library. The contrasting images are used to create detailed comparisons of the wretched and the sublime, life and death, light and dark. The intimate, spiritually profound relationship between a woman and a horse for example, might be presented in contrast to the spiritual devastation of war.

The heavily textured surfaces of the mixed media paintings evolved out of my desire to experience the work on a visceral level. I feel the need for the paintings to function as a physical record of my emotional and artistic evolution. The dramatic impact of the distressed surfaces supports the iconographic exploration, while the embedded photographic processes help to focus and sharpen the impact of the imagery.

The paintings are gouged and carved out of mahogany panels. The surfaces are covered with an asphalt paste, carved, covered with gesso, collaged, painted and carved again. The work is built up and carved away at the same time through the repeated layering of materials.

The prints are well suited to contrasting and blurring the lines between the horrific and the sublime. Monotype with chine colle encourages spontaneity while allowing areas of visual accuracy and precision. The exquisite processes inherent in printmaking support the iconographic exploration, as the beauty of the printed page contrasts with images of catastrophe and destruction.