These works contains ‘personally imagined imagery’ collected from different cultures, eras and themes, memories of a childhood set in the Caribbean, Saudi Arabia and England offer images from many differing cultures. I have a magpie sensibility when it comes to the everyday, playfully borrowing and stealing images, colours and materials. Influences for the works are highly eclectic, ranging from the pastel shades of a Caribbean beach hut to the neon streets of New York, carnival costumes to cartoons, vintage furniture to creatures.

A childlike theme runs throughout the work, which is evidenced through the application and colours of the paint. Waterfalls of oozing glossy paint cascades over flat crisp slabs of colour. Paint is dollopped, scribbled, poured, smudged and dragged. The deliberate ‘bad-handling’ of certain areas can be set against cool crisp areas. I want the work to be brazen, loud, whimsical and frolicsome.

Radical materials express the tacky and superficial, allowing the viewer to be transported to seemingly unimaginable spaces. The paintings become extensions of me, they are eclectic and cosmic. Automatic doodling allows the motifs to operate with ambiguous references, what might be a ‘dragons tail’ to one viewer could be a piece of frosting on a cake to another.

The paintings suggest journeys evidenced through colliding imagery, layering of paint processes and fast/slow movement of the embellishments. You as the viewer are simply ‘passing through’ and for those snatched moments, you can only imagine what it would be like to visit the nonsensical sprightly cartoon-like world in front of you. I am interested in the spirit of a daydream, a glimpse into another dimension, as soon as you turn away you suspect that the motifs and shapes continue to flit, float and dash in and out of the painting plane as they continue with their outrageous party.