Pushing and pulling paint and watching a picture come to life is both exciting and frustrating for me.

It is through playing with colour, line and texture that these elements eventually come together to form a kind of relationship.

Currently my artwork plays with dinosaurs and paper cut out dollies, childhood icons that also live in our house.

I get to know them a little bit more each time I paint them. It is through observing the spontaneity and freedom of children's artwork which inspires me to paint.

As an abstractionist, I am interested in exploring texture within the picture plane, using colour and texture as metaphors for emotions, challenging the idea that painters only use paint in a way that is singular; to create a sculptural or tactile response to a painting. I love the ambiguity as well as the complexity that 'chance' may bring to my work.

For this exhibition, Venire a Sapere, (to find something by chance, to see and know) a series of paintings developed by applying layers of paint in bands of colour, in this case the spectrum of red, randomly dividing the textual constraint. Incorporating the use of knotted twine, plaster and colour which function in a way of adding another dimension and to also interrupt the formal structure. With the removal of the attached pieces to reveal the negative texture underneath, allowing for 'chance' in that the remaining shapes take on another meaning and perhaps direct the painting into a new realm. Other works revealed themselves as more subtle and contemplative, using minimal markings to create shadowy and elusive images.