I want to communicate something of the bittersweet experience of looking backwards, inwards and into other realms. I wish to conjure the joy and mystery of childhood in my work, the surreal nature of humans at play, granting the viewer access through a portal, evoking the past and bringing it to life. When one is in a room of my work, I wish to strike with full power this ‘remembering’ effect. As if a host of phantoms in a great hall, the juxtaposition of the beautiful and disturbing. Obscured humanoid figures and creatures act as memories veiled by time.  I desperately try to grasp on to the inevitable fading of youth and watch the advancement of one into a world of aggression and destructiveness.

I want to explore eyes in ancient faces, figures and the nature of their gaze and how they trade with us as one studies them, the larger uncertainties of the spirit. Wandering figures aim to discover the numinous qualities of nature as the figures are discovered themselves, bedimmed within shrouds of earthy mist. When viewed together, I aim to construct a fragmented narrative, a visual language, that is charged with sensation in a realm where words don’t matter. Playing with art materials allows me to bridge a gap from reality into imagination, to a bodily sensation connected to the inner. And here, one suspects, is the crux of the matter: in exposing a world of the uncanny, what is revealed may be realer than real.

There are fantasies in our worlds, mysticism even.  I seek to wake in us the sense we had as children that the invisible exists alongside the visible and that all the commodity of the waking mind may be willed into being by the act of dreaming and playing.