I am a painter focusing on semi-abstract work, employing the landscape and the figure to explore themes of ephemerality, the fluidity of human experience, the complexity of nature and the dialectic interaction of joy and sadness. Through the interplay of elements of abstraction and representation, I am attempting to highlight visual and spatial relationships of the ineffable material that make up the human and the natural world. I work with layers upon layers of acrylic, oil, wax and a variety of crayons, creating a dialogue between texture, colour and pattern, constantly revealing and concealing different parts of the painting, inviting the viewer to look to a place within and respond to the picture in terms of their own lived experience.