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Painting is fundamental to my practice, and I have always found it deeply connected to music. I use both to create spaces that can be experienced individually and shared collectively. I believe all painting is abstract, even when it contains recognisable signs or images. Painting and sound are not defined by those signs; they are simply used to generate energy and relationships between them. I do not begin with an intellectually imposed meaning, statement or declaration. I don't think art has any literal meaning. I believe artworks are sacred beings and holders of energy - physical energy which simply comes down to physics. I’m very interested in physical science and I believe the properties and laws we come across in our physical world also apply to art. I begin with an empty space and work until I discover a new space that can be perceived from multiple viewpoints. The properties and laws of the physical world also apply to the way an artwork occupies space and affects perception. A work is not finished until it becomes a credible space with its own dimensions and internal logic. At that point, it becomes a living entity.

 

This understanding of space has increasingly led me beyond the physical surface of the canvas. Through 3D sound, video, installation and performance, I can construct spaces that are simultaneously physical, visual and auditory. Sound becomes architectural rather than atmospheric; it can occupy, divide and transform space in relation to painting, image and movement. My work therefore moves between abstraction and recognisable cultural imagery, often drawing on cinema and popular music, not as subjects to illustrate but as charged cultural material. I am interested in how images, sounds and gestures carry emotional and physical energy, and how apparently contradictory realities can coexist within a single perceptual space.​