My art practice begins with the study of relationships. Through the process of creating art, I am exploring how specific relationships to particular people, ideas, environments or material objects contribute to the development of identity. Defined by a figure or group of figures in a confined space, my work makes use of ambient light, metaphor, symbolism, irony and mystery to create a distinctive mood of ethereal discomfort. I use the figure to create a direct emotional connection with the viewer. Often the figure is placed within an environment of abstraction or fantasy in order to give shape to the intangible qualities of reality. By making juxtapositions and creating relationships between the concrete and the abstract, I aim to place the viewer in a world with no easily definable constants; a world ever-evolving within a continual state of flux.