Artist's Statement: I like to paint things I see and experience in my everyday environment. Each picture is part of an ongoing exploration and documentation of my urban surroundings, and what they mean to me. As a painter, it is the process of picture making - the materialization of a coherant image, through the manipulation of paint/other materials - that excites me most. It is therefore important to me that the image I create is representative of this process, as well as being a realization of my perception of the subject.