My recent work looks at what happens when people come face to face with the art and architecture of the past.

Painted in a traditional style, it allows me to address contemporary issues about our personal and collective relationship not just to the art of the past, but to the past itself, the soil from which we have grown. It raises questions about the place of traditional art and architecture in contemporary society, through the way that we react and respond to it, and the way that art is presented in museums and galleries.

This theme also allows me to playfully blur the distinctions between art and reality. My compositions often create a deliberately restricted view of the figures and settings, making them ambiguous or even unidentifiable. They can seem to depict an imaginary realm in which people, artworks and architecture become elements in a dream, the indefinable mood compounded by an atmospheric use of light and colour.

I do not try to put across any one particular viewpoint in my paintings; they are presented in an open-ended way, leaving viewers to interpret them in their own fashion. At times there is an element of irony or humour; at others there can be seem to be a mysterious moment when distinctions between past and present become blurred, when each somehow seems to render the other more complete.