Artist statement
My work is based on memory and the way memories of a place or situation tend to change and blur over a period of time. Details become hazy and generalities increase so our memories become abstractions of real places and events. Through my glass, woodwork and photography the underlying theme is often suggestive of flow; the flow of ideas, the flow of time, the flow of movement as well as the flow and perception of memories too. By looking at past experiences and places I pare these down to their basic forms, the color, shape, texture that formed the basis for a specific, albeit somewhat faded, memory.

“Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an exploration into unknown areas.”
― Arshile Gorky

"Memory is like an abstract painting- it doesn't present things as they are, but rather as they feel."
― Eugenia Collier in Marigolds