I have always loved colour, mark making and building up layers. Everything in our physical and emotional world is made of contrasting layers. Painting allows me to explore this with a sense of discovery, as I let the image build up and develop. I begin a piece with a loose idea and palette and start by building up and removing parts, finding interesting marks, colours and textures on the journey, responding to what appears on the canvas. A painting will go through many shifts and changes before it is complete.
