My paintings are conceived in relation to concepts of travel. The goal to create a colourful imaginative world is at the foreground of my visual journeys in paint. Each of my paintings is about a journey, a journey associated with formal challenges and that deals with the way complex systems can be differentiated from chaotic ones.

As inventions of imaginary spaces each painting is a unique entity with its own identifying set of formal hierarchies, achieved through the layering process as well as the construction of planes that intersect, interweave and flip on themselves. This process involves the construction of hierarchical compositions that are at once challenging and (hopefully) engaging for the viewer to unravel, offering new discoveries in each view. The transition of space is articulated with a degree of invention and surprise. Each work presents a variety of possibilities of form that suggest abstract landscapes.

Most of my visual language is inspired from first-hand experiences of changing environments and nature that I encountered while traveling and working on cruise ships. Examples of these changing environments include the Straits of Magellan in South America where I was surrounded by icebergs and glaciers as well as the experience of snorkeling in the coral reefs of the Caribbean. Each painting involves a re-discovery of representational motifs inspired from personal memories of different types of landscapes. The contour of a shape or the drag of a line may suggest the silhouette of a leaf or the edge of ripple of a wave.

As a result my paintings have a relationship to the organic and the pictorial rules often associated with traditional landscape painting; such as receding planes, varying textures, devices of scale, overlapping and atmospheric perspective. For this reason I feel it is useful to consider the picturesque as well as notions of beauty and the sublime in relation to my work.