Drawing is important to me because it provides an experimental space; one which can be challenging, but which is less pressured than painting, and where I feel freer to explore. Whereas painting, in my experience, is a process of trying to achieve something already decided upon, in my drawings I will generally have an optical effect in mind and a subject theme that I want to convey, but no clear picture of what will emerge. Like going for a walk, a drawing always throws up experiences, unanticipated and invigorating.
My drawings are entirely non-representational. They are also about things which I feel cannot easily be represented: emotional response, psychological disturbance and their reverberations. They sit at the boundary of painting and sculpture, investigating the interruption or disruption of space and time, by means such as cutting, edges, displacement, layering, voids and absence.

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