Artist's Statement

My paintings are mostly figurative, imaginative and essentially narrative. If I can awaken in someone an event or emotion to which they can relate, I have succeeded.

Basically the story line within the painting is secondary to the motivation it provides to create through design, harmony and colour, an emotional atmosphere or mood – whether serious or whimsical.

This partly abstract approach can imbue the viewer with feelings more intense than those evoked by mere illustration.

I like to pursue an idea to a conclusion that seems to have an inevitability about it, as though the painting has always existed in an eternal sense. The idea may have come from many disparate sources such as photographs, sketches, memories or a spoken phrase.

So my challenge is to tell, through a stylised and sometimes decorative manner, a little story in an intriguing way!