The scale of those elements can vary greatly within one image, generating a mysterious set of dreamlike scenarios which invite the viewer to fill them with their own narratives, with their own memories real or imagined, like fairy tales.
I work with a cast of theatrical characters sometimes found within a toy theatre and in other paintings flying in the sky, wandering across the land or floating on the sea.
My images are not confined by logic or physical laws. A figure with a hooped skirt might delicately balance on the deck of a wooden vessel surrounded by stars with a moon on stilts while a shoal of fish gently pass her by, unperturbed by the apparition.
My aim is to try to evoke that moment of anticipation in a theatre, when the curtain lifts on the stage and reality is suspended.
