The core of my practice focuses primarily on painting and drawing and currently examines the role of authority in contemporary society. In particular I am interested in how power manifests itself in individuals and nation states and how it translates into symbols, iconography, actions and a sense of self and place.

The recent work explores urban and rural terrain along with figurative compositions often involving uniformed subjects. The rural landscapes examine the duality implicit in areas that are repositories of romantic ideal and yet contain hidden threats. In the drawings of urban areas neo-classicism is referenced as an architecture of imagined order, stability and permanence. The figurative compositions and portraits examine individual and collective selfhood in situations of social instability. All of the recent works are executed in black and white.

The aim of all the work is to raise questions relating to the control of space, personal and national boundaries.