My paintings offer equivocal viewpoints in which the duality of surface and illusion is disrupted. I am particularly interested in the intersection between what is external - visible - and what is internal - hidden.
I view the intentionally smooth surface of my paintings as a skin which acts as a point of mediation between the public surface - explicit - and the private realm that is usually more subtle and veiled - implied. This skin creates a screen between the painting and the viewer, highlighting the subjective process of filtering and selecting information.
I paint closely cropped and zoomed in shots of the human face with the same level of intensity as a far off tree or aerial view. All my paintings have a link with humanity even when the figure itself is absent from the picture plane. I want to suggest an emotional charge which is under the surface of the everyday, but without being representational in direct form. I set out to challenge the assumptions of truth in the photographic source and to examine what it means to be real.