My work explores the mystifying paradox between the poetic and the prosaic that many of us encounter in everyday life. Magic realism in my painting allows me to take ideas out of the ordinary and imbue them with a more transcendent meaning.

I am interested in taking people out of their expected contexts, so that they no longer inhabit the obvious social documentary realm, but rather seem to float in the half rooted, half etheric world of dreaming. Devoid of their predictable environments, characters often become emblematic of other states and feeling, rather than purely representation records of the seen and known.

I use a lot of animal images in my work because they evoke a natural empathy so that different experiences can be illuminated in a more creative way.