Our world is a place full of wonder and, for me, painting and drawing are a tool to delve deeper into places visited and people encountered along the way. The world can be a place of astonishing physical and spiritual beauty where for many peoples, culture, religion and landscape are inseparable. Travelling allows us to see and learn more about the way people everywhere connect to each other and the world around them and how in turn we can relate to each other through our common humanity. This is where I find the inspiration for my work. All work shown is based on direct experience, I only work from my own reference gathered on location during my travels or here at home.
In the studio I work from my own digital reference photos and field drawings to develop works. I'm strongly influenced by 19th and 20th century narrative based figurative work by artists such as Americans Winslow Homer, Fredrick Remington and Andrew Wyeth. The Australian impressionist artists and narrative, observational work by artists travelling with early explorers and colonial artists such as TS Gill are of particular interest to me.