I collect past, present and imagined scenes to form new narratives.I find motifs from the ornamental and classical, mythology, fantasy and the natural world. I let the paintings slowly reveal themselves, they take the subjects I begin with somewhere else, somewhere surprising and unexpected.It’s important that my figurations are anonymous deities. I paint them to be a symbolic fluid energy in their own transcendent allegory the paint has created for them. This enables me to explore themes around human love and connection, one another and with the natural world.