I use historical styles to explore contemporary themes in my paintings.  Ordinary things become enchanted and come adrift, allowing new possibilities to appear. I  depict moments when people become absorbed in looking, in galleries and in art classes.

Other work of mine engages with gender. From 1995 to 2005, I was involved with a group of London artists working in various media who, in the wake of feminism, were looking for ways in which men might find liberation too. We used paintings, sculpture, film, installation and performances to explore how we had been conditioned as men and boys and to enable us to envisage future possibilities.

Studio U24