Technically, I work to create texture as a key feature of my work. I draw on Modernist, Minimalist and Abstract Expressionist inspiration and am influenced by some of the classic experimentalists in these modes, including Mark Rothko, Yves Klein, Jackson Pollock, more figurative artists such as Joan Miró and Francis Bacon and conceptual artists such as Ralph Hotere and Anish Kapoor. My practice is intentionally experimental, always trying to find new ways to capture the emotion, visceral reaction or real object I am focusing on, using texture and colour over form. At times I recreate the colour and decay of the buildings and facades of India and the Middle East that I have experienced on my travels or make abstractions of individual photographs.