Biography
Some of my newer work seems to be an attempt to describe places where individual imagination is continually and randomly triggered by perceived reality, and reality and figments of the imagination then run parallel. I am fascinated with the idea that each person sees their present surroundings as populated by fleeting visions from other sources. I often paint in a roughly Surrealist style and frequently make narrative and somewhat allegorical works with mythical references and some images appropriated from art of earlier centuries. Visions of contemporary landscapes are usually without the human figure but show evidence of recent human presence. In more recent years I have drawn onto large-scale photographs and animated some of these directly, to extend possibilities for sequential narrative. Earlier content involved selecting and mentally processing fragmentary images from newspapers or elsewhere, in montage style - but using drawing rather than collage - and allowing them to influence a dramatic sequence by chance.
