My personal aesthetic has been informed by my interest in Jungian Philosophy and the theory of the collective unconscious, with it’s inherent idea of an imagery that is common to all of humanity; thus my paintings allude to an archaic iconography of symbols and archetypes.  The references are doors, archways, trees, roots, and anthropomorphic forms as well as the archetypal figures of dreams.  My paintings are imbued with my love of colour and reciprocal relation of colour to colour, as well as the juxtaposition of light and dark, male and female, to produce a phenomenon of mystery.

Technically I paint on canvas or wood panel, using layers of acrylic under painting, paste impasto, sometimes collage, usually sgraffito, and finally drawing with charcoal and oil stick. Layer by layer, using the various idioms of painting, I pose my own questions.  I intend that the work will evoke in the viewer fragments of awareness that are buried in the mind and that connect to a common human experience.