Conceptually my work is centred on the acceptance of transience that all things are in a continual state of change. I am stimulated by that which is imperfect, impermanent and incomplete.

I am largely influenced by the urban environment and architecture, in particular the buildings and walls showing the evidence of erosion, alterations and marks detailing passed events, changes and activities. I am attracted to the idea of the palimpsest, which strictly refers to a medieval document on parchment or vellum where attempts have been made to erase earlier writing, which, despite all efforts, will eventually show through and provide evidence of the previous work. The word palimpsest can be extended to mean something having usually diverse layers or aspects apparent beneath the surface.

I work in encaustic, hot wax that hardens and becomes more permanent within minutes. It demands both freedom of inspiration from me and also respect for it as a natural medium. And just as the built up environment and the medieval vellum often betray the layers or our intervention, so encaustic - it is translucence - create pictures of layered opacity that show my marks and its own depths and shallows.

The development of the work revolves around making new discoveries, allowing one experience to lead to another and returning to previous work and redeveloping earlier themes.

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