Vivid colour palette

The vivid colours in my paintings are intended
to have a life-affirming effect on
the viewer, perhaps with the sense of having
a revelatory vision, a mild migraine or
recovering from a hangover. My search
for the beautiful mundane is part of my attempts
to make sense of modern life – and that
trying to exist in the warm bath of an eternal
present is hard when you’re constantly busy
working, bringing up a family, arguing about
politics, reflecting on relationships and
worrying about the world in general. The
paintings reveal the effort involved in
being constantly mindful of the idea of
William Blake’s “Heaven in a Wild Flower”.