My work springs from a variety of sources, from purely abstract ideas, from the seen world and from the work of other artists. The process of painting is an attempt to discover a clear, coherent, pictorial idea. My imagination is excited by colour and my enthusiasm for the activity of painting results in this body of work that expresses a concern for something that is celebratory and affirmative.

Maps have appeared in my work for some time and stem from my interest in collecting maps and always having a map with me when walking on the South Downs. The symbols drawn from maps are a different language from painting and I find it interesting that maps are so fictional and yet specific as models. The geographical world, the world recorded on maps, is perceptual and conceptual, it is an abstract system of co-ordinates with an unspecified perspective. The stitched contours in some of my paintings have been given a perspective indicating a viewpoint for both the landscape and the map.

Memory, experience or imagination influence the way in which I perceive the world - my painting’s hover between a real and illusionary, imagined world.