A landscape painting on the living room wall of my grandparents' house first inspired my real interest in art -beyond the crayons and felt pens- and how art, in this case painting, had the power to generate ideas beyond what you were actually seeing. I saw this image on a regular basis. Each time it generated what I can only describe as a repetition in my mind. The image was of a simple landscape that had a country road running through the middle of fields dead in the centre of the painting. Further along the road turns off abruptly and exits to the right side of the canvas. This relatively bleak, though 'picturesque' scene suddenly has a muted intrigue. Where did the road end up? With imagination overriding logic and a desire 'to know' this apparently straightforward painting created a haunting feeling that was not part of any memory, rather, an abstract construction of something that was plainly not there to begin with. This was a kind of ghosting. Even the painting was not real - it was a reproduction.

In brief, my work amounts to exploring and presenting the concept of the unsolvable mystery. This idea has manifested itself in various forms such as the concealment of identities as the faces are rarely revealed, a moment captured before or after a significant event, the interaction of figures with inanimate objects within/out of the frame and even in the events of Jack The Ripper.