I graduated in 1999 from the University of Northampton with a degree in Fine Art.


It has been making paintings of the face that has been my subject of interest over the past ten years.. My large paintings are made from many canvases. My starting point (the face) is dissected, consciously breaking down figurative forms, and I reconstruct the fragmented forms through individual canvases. The canvases vary in size and proportion and their painterly treatment is arbitrary,in relationship to the whole, with emphasis on the individual surface rather than the complete image.

Process plays an important role in my work, each canvas ( fragment ) is painted independently on the floor without any pre drawing. It organically evolves from its starting point and there is transitory, ambiguous change from that starting point, the fact that each canvas remains independent in the process is what I find engaging, I am striving for an overall painting with elements of interest in there purest form, that of the paint surface itself, rather than (the human characteristic) of perceiving the face as the primary narrative. Each canvas remains a constitute part of the 'realism'( of the face ) but I also strive for painterly obstacles to conflict with a clear reading of the representational, directing the viewer towards ( I hope ) a dual appraisal of the image as a whole, and its clear delineated fragments.

In conjunction with my long term pre occupations, I have also recently worked on monochromatic pieces. They have similar themes of surface and fragmentation, but with a more central theme of pattern.