The main interests in my practice rest on my fascination of language, meaning and image. My work is an exploration of my current relationship to objects, culture and interpretation, both personally and socially. The investigation of our visual landscape, through Media; Internet, Print, TV, filled with virtual and augmented images, advertising, news platforms and other pervasive forms of sharing information, leads to a clutter, impacting how we see and interpret our selves and our surroundings.

Through these outlets, visual experience is changed; flattened, homogenized, controlled and the permutations of seemingly disparate images and ideas become overlooked. I look to my practice of painting as a metaphor of the current condition of images and ideas. My work, through content, scale, mark, material and color pushes to employ and challenge our contemporary conditions. The square surface as democratic window to the virtual, the obscured yet eventually revealed image of icons, text, advertising, popular and obscure Internet photos of people and objects we think we know, all lead to a use, abuse and investigation of meaning in our contemporary culture.

The traditional medium of painting allows me to explore the nature of image as it relates to abstraction, the history of painting and the seemingly outdated interface of interpreting paint on a surface. As the person making the work my analogue decisions, corrections and mistakes as well as the use of recognizable images cause a shift in message or experience. A tension is found between image, meaning and abstraction. I skeptically and with great hope look to painting and the presentation of painting to contribute in new ways to our visual and artistic experience. My hope is that the work invites viewers to question and investigate their visual landscape in new ways.