Abstraction provides the expressive vocabulary for my response to the global, persistent conflict and violence, creating emotive landscapes. The genesis for my work is the urban environ, more specifically the night city, graffiti, demolition, fire, windows, fences and walls. Each painting under goes a history of its own, as layers are added, scraped, overpainted, built and rebuilt — the paintings evolve from depiction to a more personal, evocative terrain. more

“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”

— Edward Hopper