I am part of the Scottish Diaspora; I was born in Scotland but grew up in New Zealand. The feeling that home is always elsewhere is not something I can easily shake - I am an exile, a stranger in both the land of my birth as well as my adoptive home. That said, I feel that there's a similarity between the Scottish and New Zealand landscapes - particularly the South Island landscape - and this informs much of my work. These landscapes are not depictions of specific locales or 'real' places, but rather half remembered snapshots from a distant past. In the end, for an artist to work from the margins is not necessarily a bad thing.

I don’t use brushes in the traditional sense. I'll attack the works vigorously, then obliterate, a process of applying paint and then wiping back.  I stretch and pull the pigment across the textured surface and the work begins to emerge and reveal itself. I like the idea of chance, allowing it in as part of the creative process. There’s a tension between being in control of the process and letting go.

My work is less about a recognisable reality than it is an attempt to capture a feeling, a fleeting moment. The imagery speaks of things that are there, but not quite there. What is suggested is just as important as what is depicted.