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My work has developed over the past few years from conceptual installations to figurative painting and drawing. This move away maintains a philosophical standpoint that has a contemporary Freudian basis. The theoretical considerations that underpin my work bolster a running commentary on my own personal preoccupations and interests.

I paint a narrative about the nature of the human condition, gender, the family, sexuality, and psychosis, often talking about people that have crossed my path, friends, analysts at the Institute of Psychoanalysis or people at the Arts Council.

My motive when painting is one of wanting to create in my audience a sense of how the world is seen by me. The world I perceive is often a little dark, slightly ambiguous, a little sinister, a touch perverse. Aggression, sexuality, envy and hate are expressed in muted ways; I am not interested in portraying an overt acting out of these emotions but am asking my viewer to see the undercurrents underneath the seemingly ordinary situation I have put before them, perhaps I might cover up my observations with a touch of humour.
The figure dominates, often from my imagination, sometimes from life or photographs. I put my figures into the foreground of my paintings, often looking at the viewer, with this I try to make them express the feelings that the paint has translated for me. The placing of my figures right up against the picture plane is to place them as close to the viewer’s world as possible, to create a feeling of slight discomfort. The significant elements of my figures, faces, hands, any body part are developed in quite a different way to the rest of the canvas. They do not recede into the background to create a semi abstract pattern like the rest of the painting, they stand out and thereby create the narrative for me.

The flatness of my work and the shallow picture plane, harps back to Greek Orthodox iconography that was part of my childhood. The heaviness of the figures are also influenced by religious iconography.

Wedding Dress

2004
100x50

Living

2006
75x60

Family Lunch

2005
gouach and charcoal on paper
80x60

Nudity and desire

2006
pencil on paper
80x50

Thirty Years

2006
oil on canvas
80x60

Zoo

2004
pencil on paper
80x60