The work explores the constant tension between the aspect of light and dark, good andbad, relating the contemporary to the historic and the sacred to the profane, thesignificance and history of painting as a system of representation, exposing how the materiality of paint can carry and convey meaning.

Necessitating a slowed-down process of looking, the intensely worked surfaces are delicate and luminous, expanding and reforming found imagery through studied formal approaches.

The work weaves multiple narratives that are based on pre existing imagery culled from a variety of sources, including early renaissance painting, film stills, personal photography, historical events and news media.

The palette is restricted to a monochromatic format which is suggestive of a blurry recollection of a fading memory, their quiet and restrained appearance however belies an underlying moral complexity, they engage equally with questions of history and its representation as they do with quotidian subject matter.

The constant battle for power, land and identity of the supressed are the primal source of inspiration for these works.