From an early fascination with watching my father paint, through years of working with drawing, print, design, materials and eventually computer-generated spaces, I have learned that making something is often a way of discovering it.

An idea may begin with a sense of possibility, but it changes as it takes form. When something becomes visible, we can experience it differently. We notice relationships we hadn't seen before. We make adjustments. Something unexpected emerges, and that discovery becomes part of where we go next.

That way of working has gradually found its way into my paintings.

Stillness In Motion, Within and Without began with an exploration of light, colour, reflection and translucent forms. As the work has evolved, those forms have become less literal and more fluid—moving between structure and atmosphere, solidity and transparency, the physical and the imagined.

I am interested in that space between knowing and experiencing.

A painting may suggest movement without moving, depth without a defined place, or a form that seems to be both emerging and dissolving. I don't necessarily want to resolve those questions for the viewer. I want to leave enough room for something personal to happen.

For me, painting is not simply the execution of an idea. It is a process of paying attention to what begins to emerge.

The work develops through looking, making, changing and looking again.

Perhaps that is also what I hope the paintings offer the viewer: a moment to slow down, look again, and experience something before deciding what it is.