My work focuses on the urban environment for inspiration, more specifically those areas of the city that are illustrative of continuing shifts within our living space due to modern developments, such as globalisation and capitalism. From the overlooked and unremarkable elements (car parks, underpasses, stairwells) to the bizarre and excessive (brightly lit showrooms and coffee houses, a forgotten 1980's pinball machine), my paintings address the city as a composite of fleeting moments and impressions, garnered from aimless wanderings, motivated hunts or everyday routines. The work deliberately avoids tourist landmarks and postcard viewpoints, instead focussing on the marginal elements of where we live. The unexpected show of light in a multi-storey car park, the dreamlike, almost hallucinogenic, qualities of fluorescent lights through trees or rain; the human environment is explored as a portmanteau vision of concrete, glass, neon, colour and imagination.
