Being born in Glasgow, Scotland I have experienced, throughout my life, the claustrophobic crowded landscape of contemporary urban life. These very specific spatial conditions of intense human congregation are the basis of my painting. My work deals with the visual vastness and intimidating primeval power of huge masses, exploring how human behavior and perception are affected and altered through this intense environment.

The phenomenon of perception, itself, is at the very core of my work. By abstracting images of crowds and altering the color and shape of given forms, my paintings become patterned, optical relief’s; putting the viewer in doubt as to what exactly they are looking at. Not only does the dialogue between the audience and the image play about with the viewing distance from the micro to the macro and the representational to the abstract; but it also emphasizes the liquid tactility and color of the paint itself.

The aim of my work is to use the paint’s sensuous properties of three-dimensional liquid pigment not only to question the viewers’ perception of deciphering what emerges and disappears on the picture plane, but also to experience the flowing texture of the painting’s surface. I make the viewer approach my paintings in a traditional way; offering them an illusion of a three-dimensional space, yet at the same time, negating the very illusion initially promised.