1 What is/are the primary reason(s) for you to make work in the first place? To make humans love each other more. 2 What do you intend your work to convey to an audience? A sense of being alive. 3 Why do you work in your chosen medium and format? It has become my primary language of expression. 4 Technically speaking how do you go about constructing your work, that is the image or object itself? What devices do you employ? It’s like a cloud of ether slowly taking form as the disparate elements are pulled together…. 5 Which period(s)/artists/specific works of art are you influenced by and how directly? How does this manifest in your work? I am very interested in the early northern renaissance and in particular Patenirs’ ‘World landscape’ as a model for contemporary reinvention. 6 What stimulates/informs your work from the world around you? Travelling is great but I don’t get away enough for this to have much of an impact so perhaps the desire to see more of the world becomes the fuel for a fantastical world view which in turn is realised through the act of painting. 7 What stimulates/informs your work from your own personal experience? It’s personal. ; ) 8 From where do you derive your other visual source material (i.e. non art historical) and how do you implement this material within your work? Often the starting point for a painting is born from images conjured through literature, more particularly myths and legends. Films can often stimulate ideas in a similar way. 9 What are the main problems that you face in making your work? I try to keep my practice open ended so I am always at a cross roads. The problems are the questions which become the driving force to keep painting. 10 Where do you intend to take your work from here? I really couldn’t say.