In my work the setting is the sea; as J. R. R. Tolkien said, the sea calls us home. Looking out at the ocean, like looking up at the stars, conjures a sense of the infinite, underscored by how little these phenomena have changed over the past thousand years.

The length of our life when measured against that of the ocean is incredibly short, and my paintings and drawings begin in contemplation of this. Each of the pieces engage the sea: a contemporary protagonist looks out over the landscape; a pirate paces the shore with the ocean as backdrop; a woman in pirate garb lies stretched in the sand; and the ocean itself shimmers in the moonlight and crashes down as a majestic wave.

In each manifestation the ocean, powerful in its timelessness, creates a strong emotional tenor and sense of place, and desire, romanticism and emulation run as conceptual currents throughout the work.