about the paintings Much of my work is an exploration of 
elemental forces in nature. 

I’m interested in the tension and precarious 
balance of contradictory elemental forces: 
heaviness vs weightless buoyancy, 
contraction vs unfurling. 
In the paintings, forms emerge and recede, 
float weightlessly and are counterbalanced 
by the pull and tug of gravity. Inspiration for these paintings comes from forms
in the natural world - 
the quiet of an undersea world, a precariously 
stacked cairn of stones, an eclipse, a butterfly’s 
wing, flowing seaweed.