My paintings map my inner world. I have developed a personal pictorial language of symbols which are intuitive and symbolic rather than descriptive. Weightless, fragmented and isolated objects are constructed with bold lines and flattened shapes in pared-down, afocal compositions. Color is used to reconstruct different emotional states and to connect cryptic narratives. Ambiguous spaces filled with idiosyncratic fish, birds, rocks, mechanical equipment and tools, rendered in a vague and choppy manner, populate the work and act as a surrogate for the self.

No one meaning predominates, only indefinite environments where strong undercurrents of emotion combine with murky, dream-like atmospheres. I want to engage by slipping away, leaving gaps for viewers to fill in as a springboard for their own imaginations.