These paintings are simply a further investigation into both my immediate environment, and the act of making paintings in itself.

Like much of my past work, as a group, these particular paintings feel less like a cohesive series, and more like a loosely connected train of thoughts, each one coming and going as it pleases but perhaps revealing a common sense of place as it does. This sense of place, or space, stems from general observations of what is around me, but also the inner world of thoughts, feelings or imagination.

Beauty underpins much of what I try to create, but some of these works also lean into a mythological or narrative feeling, and more and more I find myself thinking of the landscape around me as a sort of springboard, or a vehicle, for communicating things that are tricky to say with words.