My work is about the body being seen as an expression of the mind.
        I use the figure from every angle, to me the surface of the body is an expressive landscape.
The pose the figure takes is a mechanical structure, which is a three dimensional description of the emotional life within the mind of that figure. The limitations of the body are a common language. We all know how it feels to be in the pose when we see splayed fingers or an arched back.
We are connected below the surface by a common language that is wordless.
Our minds also work with colour and imagery.
To use this connection, I show the figure in a narrative situation and the composition is often constructed to give the viewer a role to play in the picture:
                                   I intend that at a subconscious level, my naturalistic representation of a familiar world, will give the viewer a sense that the picture is about him, as he recognises that he has seen this reality before.
A narrative usually forms in the mind of the viewer without any comment from me, except for the title.
        Presented as a statue, the body is a monument both to itself and to human thought.
I use images of statues to represent the idea of the body as a monument to itself and our culture, and images of real, fleshy bodies to represent emotional life. I use winged figures  to represent that part of our thought that refuses to be material and finite.