I am drawn to the spaces and architecture that surround me every day. The city has been one of the most important influences upon thinking, and the art, of the twentieth century, and for the most part the city has been exclusively urban. But as the cities grew and spread out the truly ‘urban’ identity changed and the suburban became for more and more people part of the everyday fabric of their lives. The idea of suburbia can provoke strong emotions; for some it is a vision of utopia to others it can be a vision of hell. But rather than the bland homogeny that many might associate with suburbia I see it as a place of repressed and quiet grandeur, of hopeful aspirations and bitter disappointments and all that comes in-between.

Although often depicting spaces that are familiar to me I am always striving to give a sense of anonymity that would invite the viewer to deal with their own relationship with the landscape around them and the emotions that these places might evoke. I select quiet places at quiet times letting the landscape stand alone with no visible signs of life trying to give a feeling of place rather than an exact description of it. The emptiness of these scenes and lack of detail can often leave these works with ambivalence, at once both seductive and sinister.