Prior to working as a full-time artist, I spent 13 years in high-pressure sales. Although the financial benefits were very good, I became disillusioned with how the customer and the employees ended up being treated. The customer was reduced to mere name and number, and the employee to pawn in the greater scheme of company politics; it was a pure means-to-an-end existence.

My work explores the role that individuality plays in society, and I have focussed on the existential issue of my own self as a site that has been formed by influences of others. Through my work, I have become acutely aware of the regulation of the Individuals’ behaviour and how that behaviour is motivated through conformity and/or self-determination.

Despite this awareness, there is also an acknowledgment in my work of the ‘somewhat tragic’ in our humanity. This has been achieved visually by the moralisation of nameless faces in my paintings. I have applied many different media onto my paintings including teak varnish, yacht varnish, non-slip clear varnish, ink , fluorescent paint, emulsion and spray paint.