My work is predominantly painting which are simple snapshots of everyday life which attempts to represent the way we store and recall visual information.

My paintings are a collection of memories which attempt to represent them truthfully, the way they are translated into a sensory shorthand. The work is the representation of a memory unable to be fully recalled, with all detail diminished. They are suggestive, what is left are colours, feelings and uncertainty. A vagueness of memory which is our only connection to who we are, they inform us and influence our perception of future experiences. Therefore what basis is there for truth, is it merely a fragmented construct of an individual’s fickle perception.

The images I paint are incomplete, ‘unfinished’, suggestions of an insignificant event which has passed unnoticed or cannot be fully recalled. They represent lost memories, they are the blackout from a drunken night, a forgotten lover’s kiss, the ending of a blurred dream, the hurt from a distant broken heart.

My paintings are the realisation of this pretence. Like the illusion of film shattered by the projector’s light and the dirty cinema screen. Each speck of dust or Coke stain which drips down the screen and interferes with the projection serves to remind us that we are watching a film and reveals the deception, the reality of the fraud.

“My paintings are the compromised memory, an interpretation in which all parts are included or all parts deleted accordingly. An edited account of events; a kind of meeting in the middle, in a no man’s land.”