Painting has always been my passion, first traditional and now digital painting. Using scanned and collected material such as images from the media such as newspaper and television, I paint digitally. I am interested in the new media that is available to us all and how this leads us to spend a lot of our time looking at screens of some form or another whether it is a mobile phone, computer or television screen. Much of my sources are taken from these screens and reworked into my own form of digital painting. In looking at the media, I look are people portrayed to us in the media and how they are presented to us. I am inspired by the video art of Bill Viola and Nam June Paik and the Internet based artworks of Jonathan Harris. I grew up in East Germany, did my fine art training in London, England and am now working in Pretoria, South Africa.