Why are we so often unable to integrate and reconcile experiences that cause us to hide, express, repress, awaken and then retreat, again? Why are we so reluctant to let go? Isn’t this how we grow? What is growth? Like my paintings and collage, sometimes things in life work out and sometimes they don’t. Sometimes issues are often left unresolved. This is the process: to somehow manage to be in the deep end of what is not being seen. It’s here where we experience the creative disordering necessary to use our imagination to see potentiality. Isn’t this growth? 

I am an American/British visual artist who lives and works in the countryside north of Glasgow. My current works are formed by creating expressive paintings, many of which are cut then re-cut, painted and re-painted, simplified, elaborated, reduced, and re-introduced. Ultimately, each is an artefact in an ongoing tale; memories in relationship within a multidimensional environment.