These small paintings are made with many layers of acrylic glazes, a palimpsest of pattern and colour so the paint itself becomes a hazy atmosphere the viewer must try to see through. The small scale of the work requires a viewer to come close. I aim to reward them with a complicated beauty in which there is a flux in scale, a house into a dollhouse from which leaks a sumptuous pattern flooding the world. Within each decorative pattern of blossoms, peacocks or pastoral scenes is another pattern of negative space full of strange and malignant shapes that creep into the subconscious secretly undoing the certainty and comfort of decoration. In these "empty" spaces one can dream.
