From the collection "Baptism of The Shadows". Exhibited Sydney, Australia 2008.
Through the process of painting, my concerns are based on endless variations of silence, absence and becoming, presented as a continuously fragmented narrative.
Each of my paintings are therefore like fractured paragraphs of an untold story, like a film still, removed from the sequence of the entire film; the viewer is only allowed one frame in order to evaluate and comprehend the infinite possibility of narrative that surrounds each painting.
I create each body of work as a chapter from an evolving novel, story or film. There are, as with any story, vital pieces of information missing, yet their absence is present in the stillness of each painting.
A narrative evolves with each body of work, a narrative without a beginning nor an end.
I endeavor to paint the presence of absence.
