Artist Statement — So much about art is as much a mystery to me, as to everyone else. As Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, “Things are not at all as graspable and sayable as on the whole we are led to believe; most events are unsayable, occur in a space that no word has ever penetrated, and most unsayable of all are works of art, mysterious existences whose life endures alongside ours.”

An accumulation of personal choices and preferences – the colours and proportions an artist is inexplicably drawn to, the way their hand works with a certain material, the solutions they find to the problems they pose – the specifics build up. Through each work and across every series, these glimmers of personality culminate, becoming something grander and more universal than a simple reflection of the self.