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My art reflects my personal perspective on life and how I look at the world around me. I'm an optimist, I look for the beauty in stuff, scenes and in people. My choice is to work with what I see and experience, and reflect that intensity, light, colour, humour, presence and beauty in my work.

I enjoy creating paintings which have different meanings to different people - taking on a new form when looked at from another person’s point of view. I've been through various phases, including still life, skyscapes and landscapes, and I'm moving more into abstract and simple symbolism.

What’s interesting is that when I stand back and look at my own work - especially the more abstract pieces - I learn from it about who I am, sometimes that’s the first time I become aware of the emotion I’m experiencing.

My approach is perhaps best summed up by the late Robert Hodgins, a famous South African artist who was a wonderful optimist, and described art as “an auto-intoxication that allows one to live through marriages, divorces, deaths and unhappy love affairs, and come up smiling all the time.”

I love working in big scale.

I painted when I was young and then stopped for quite a few years, restarting about ten years ago. I go through prolific phases and then periods of rest. In all, there are over 500 works from 5 solo exhibitions, various group shows and commissions, in collections in South Africa, the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Spain. That's just the beginning...