My work revolves around people. The scope of human behavior and interaction. I explore socio-political ideas while keeping a humanist sensibility at the core. I'm interested in the play between tension and release. This applies to both my technique as a painter and to the subjects I choose to explore.
My painting is informed by my background in experimental performance and film. The paintings' subjects are seen as characters. The panel as a production still to a unidentified larger work - deliberately theatrical - provocative, sometimes disturbing, often humourous. Specific moments filled with the tension of the moment just before and the moment just to come. Emotional reality is stressed within a surreal context. Housed within a style that plays with the tradition of classical portraiture, its formality is subverted into a new idea thatÕs modern and vibrant.
Working on "halo"
2007
