My work relates to the fragile nature of our day-to-day existence; one that is constantly shifting and vulnerable to change. 

Using the camera as a sketchbook, I capture fleeting moments in time – everyday events that I sense have the potential to be both ordinary and extraordinary and even uncanny when re-examined through painting. 

The process of making involves the creation and subtraction of layers of paint. Through this, the source material from which I work is edited and obscured adding elements of uncertainty and ambiguity to these everyday events.

Figures engage in their own activity, seemingly unaware of the viewer, and occupy a liminal space that can appear dreamlike. 

The domestic setting, childhood, and scenes of leisurely summer days may be recognizable and have the potential to evoke a sense of nostalgia and even reverie in the viewer.  While these scenes are familiar, they are also treated in a manner that suggests a strange and haunted undercurrent. This element of unease can destabilize our initial impression of the scene suggesting that what we know in one moment can be undone in the next.

Please view the short documentary on my practice – made by the filmmaker, Greg Bushell. It combines 16mm film, Super-8 film, and more modern digital videos (the latter two mediums being "home movies” of both my childhood as well as my children’s).