I live and work in London. After a spell in design I returned to painting and began working at the National Gallery of Art in London. My intention was to earn a living and improve my understanding of the craft of picture making. For many years since completing my M.A. from the Royal College of Art I have done nothing but draw. I valued the idea of letting my work develop organically away from the need to produce a finished product.

During my M.A. I wrote about the French Philosopher Jean Baudrillard. After reading him I was very concerned with the glut of images in our society, and still am. The saturation of images is increased daily by the easy availability of digital technology. This situation is a dire one I think and I'm very interested in images that give their secrets away slowly or perhaps never do.

There have been and still are images that are not simply to be decoded and discarded at our convenience. In Buddhist art for example the goal was not necessarily to produce art as such but rather activities like painting were paths or ways to achieve a sate of concentration and equanimity.

I am very much interested in artists like the Spanish painter Zurbaran as well as Twentieth century artists like Matisse. I look at many things including textiles, pattern and ceramics including Chinese, Korean and Islamic to mention but a few.

I'm interested in a concentrated effort but which in a sense looks easy and commonplace. Beauty is important to me but that beauty might be discordant or unexpected.

I value the exploration of new materials and the commonplace. It is important that the viewer can relate to the images. Recently I've used small scale mdf panels with acrylic colours, which are often bright and somewhat artificial in colour.

My images tend to fall into established genres but I find that categorization beneficial and it means I can see my work in a tradition which helps to inspire and give momentum to new possibilities.

I currently share a Studio with the Artist Jasper Joffe in the East of London.