For me, the interrelating of figuration and abstraction serves to disrupt fixed categories of being, offering glimpses of othernesses beyond habitual perception and thought.
While immersed in painting, I inhabit a unique spatial realm that is palpably not two dimensional nor does it seem to be three dimensional. It even possesses it own temporal qualities, simultaneously unfolding and remaining still as traces of events. It is in part an image and yet possesses a physicality comprising a complex interaction of multiple elements on various levels. These elements, from differently processed linseed oils and grounds to calcite and fumed silica, have virtually endless potential permutations and combinations which commingle and are inseparable from the unfolding of the subject matter and compositional structure of the painting.