The painting process leads to new ideas and shows you connections that you hadn’t realised were there before. These paintings are about asking questions. How can I include words in the surface of a painting without distracting from the image? What happens if I place some ephemeral scaffold poles in front of the landscape? 

​Family stories and personal mythologies have been the starting point for many of the paintings, they form  an emotive starting point for a painting, a memory of an image or a feeling that has a strong resonance and doesn’t go away.