My work is about expressing the rawness of life – its pain, beauty, randomness and its’ ordinariness. It could be in the delicacy or fragility of a flower or the strength and vulnerability of a figure.
I use oil paints which I find rich and colourful and I enjoy being able to paint on layer after layer. I often draw on top with charcoal in quite a crude and distorted way. I like the way a deeper reality can be revealed through distortion.
Matisse has been an influence, as has Rose Wylie, who I have known since childhood.