My current material investigations conceptually explore issues of ‘overload’ and moral injury and are informed by my career as a cardiologist. I explore the ‘push and pull’ between precision and exploratory freedom through drawing and stone lithography. I employ repeated cycles of painting, re-sensitisation, additions and deletions in the generation of my predominantly large-scale print works and draw parallels between such erosive and labour-intensive processes and the intense workloads which overwhelm our understaffed healthcare workers and ultimately affect standards of care.
This ‘professional erosion’ is mirrored in the surface properties of my paintings which reveal cracked and reconstituted segments following layering and immersion in ink baths; and in other works which display the ‘bleaching and dispersal effects’ of acid on stone and paper. Drawn images in screen printing enable modulated processes of layering and a means to create dramatic shifts in the scale and complexity of my work.

Scale and mark making, and their relationship to the body, are fundamental to my exploration of movement, line and spatial tension. Recent paintings, made in series, embrace the raw physicality of gesture and create a sense of depth and balance through the use of negative space. Although consciously grounded in Eastern and Western art historical discourses I seek distinction from the formal tenets of abstract expressionism. Through varying degrees of figuration, which simultaneously conjure and elude interpretation, I examine the potential of painterly abstraction and the expansion of individual expressionism in my work.