The Beach Paintings are about transitions, dreaming, nostalgia. I am interested
in the impermanence of the moment and that peculiar space where we explore
and play with the transition between land and water. Beaches are places of arrival
and departure, as well as places of leisure. The beach is a space for reflection as we
separate ourselves from work routines. People go to the beach to just be at the beach.

The idea of “just being” is the essence of my work, I combine imagery derived from
my drawings, photographs, magazine clippings and ephemera to develop scenes that
could exist in the real world, but which have an otherworldliness to them. The irregularities
that occur in the resulting figures further evoke a sense of transition. The luminosity
of each moment is made more potent by the knowledge that it is fleeting. I like the idea
that an apparently light scene has an indefinable, darker side to it.