My work weaves together my ordinary, daily experiences with surreal, other-worldly ideas, incorporating aspects of dream-time and folklore. These stories hold knowledge of the human condition and our connection to nature and spirit.
My paintings can hold qualities of sadness or loss and at times a darkness that sits in dichotomy with an innocence; not dissimilar to fairytales, from this I hope to express something of the dualities in life: in the light and the dark.
The tradition of myth and folklore is fluid and one of adaption and growth; such stories evolved with their environments and the societies that spoke them. My hope is for the tangled stories that are layered into my work to intermingle with the viewers’ and that from this ‘third space’ new stories can be formed.
