ARTIST STATEMENT

My work explores water as both subject and mirror, revealing depth, atmosphere, and shifting perception over time.

I paint the interplay between surface and what lies beneath: the threshold where water and sky become indistinguishable, where reflection and reality converge. Through the water, familiar forms are transmuted into something at once strange and wonderful, abstract, yet recognizable, and greater than the sum of their parts. I call this approach Abstracted Realism, where my concern lies with the colours, lines, shapes, and rhythms that together form the essence of each work.

Working in oil at architectural scale, I build each painting through a deliberate process. The canvas is prepared to receive light, to hold it, and eventually to release it back into the room. This luminosity is constructed with intention, emerging through the accumulation of carefully considered colour combinations, and layers, a process spanning over weeks.

As a lifelong ocean swimmer and surfski paddler, my connection to water is physical and intuitive, accumulated over decades across many oceans. I observe how light penetrates the surface, how reflections distort and reassemble, how movement creates rhythm. This lived relationship shapes everything I paint.

My intention is to create art that rewards sustained engagement, work that unfolds over time, that shifts with light and season, that elevates the experience of living.

My art is a celebration of life.