I paint many things, including but not limited to landscapes, still lifes, portraits and genre paintings.  The subjects of these works include race, identity, masculinity, and our relationship with landscape, embodied through metaphorical forms and loaded symbology.

I am endlessly fascinated by the Australian narrative, whatever that means. For the large part, the whole Australian meta-narrative post colonisation has been derived from a small number of historical events, stories, and mythologies. They have been painted and sung about, and embodied in poetry, language and school curricula. They ‘define’ us as a nation and as a people and lay the foundation of our ‘esprit de corps’.   As we move into a globalised culture this idealistic (and patriarchal) vision is waning in its relevance and popularity – and some may say rightly so. I paint to unpack that lexicon. To understand what it means to be an Australian, a man, and a white man. It is to understand why I am here and how that effects who I am. I suppose my paintings are about romance and an attachment to the mythic past which is neither tangible nor real, and the realisation of this fiction.