The new work utilizes store bought printed and woven fabrics. Stretched over wooden forms and assembled into complex dimensional structures. The fabrics chosen can range from high-end designer cloth or cheap upholstery fabric to vintage suiting material.

It’s about painting, but also about the incidents that occur during the shopping process- being aware of the other shoppers. What they buy where and what they buy the fabric for. The connections and the associations that the various fabrics innately carry intrigues me. There’s always a latent social-cultural-economic connection to these materials, using it in an art context continues the process that began before the fabric enters the studio. . Titles like Ready to wear or Newly Renovated conjure up implicit connections to the work and its social and cultural to the world we try to function in. The work initiates carefully orchestrated movements and relationships leading the eye to experience decision of choice, how we choose what we wear or the environment we inhabit. The works are hybrid in nature-referring to the body and simultaneously a sense of place, They are domestic/corporate, private/public sensual/architectural and ordered/random. It taps into the physiology of taste, everyone has notions of what they like, what looks good on them, how they want to be perceived and what they aspire too…

My previous paintings had an energy relating to the color/form decisions, meaning was codified within that system of a formal abstract language. The new work clearly reveals a different means of attaching information – information relating to social, cultural and gender issues. The fabric holds embedded information that triggers associations for us in many ways, in ways where ethnic or cultural concerns are directly available to the viewer.