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Artist’s Statement

The concepts behind most of my paintings are rooted in psychology and psychoanalysis, and like psychoanalysis itself I try to use painting as a way of looking inward and attempt to relate that with the external world. My earlier work related to the shadowy world of the unconscious particularly the transition between conscious and unconscious. My work attempted to capture that brief hypnagogic moment when the conscious mind is aware of falling into a dream state.

In my current work I have concentrated more on the conflicts within the soul of modern man. Man’s departure from his instinctual nature has left him with a string of internal conflicts. Torn between the worlds of reality and the imagination, faith and knowledge, spirit and nature, modern man often finds himself lost and floating like a rudderless ship on a sea of uncertainty and despair. More specifically my work focuses on man’s paradoxical feelings of alienation in a world which he, as a member of society, has created; a world which escalates his internal conflicts and is a breeding ground for neurosis.

Previously I have used photography in my work, but at the moment I work almost exclusively in oils on canvas. I like to use vast swaths of deep blue hue to help induce a mood of reflection in the viewer. Through use of unsettling perspective and vigorous brush strokes contrasting with areas of flat colour I create paintings which are often dark and apocalyptic and stimulate the imagination.