Most of what I do is about exploring alternative perspectives.  When I work as a consultant and coach, this exploration is usually to improve effectiveness, achieve potential, or effect positive change.  My aim as an artist is to offer a perspective that initiates a spark of curiosity, questions a reality, or simply evokes a positive emotional response.

I enjoy exploring the notion that there is usually more than one version of the truth and that reality can be a highly subjective concept.  I am intrigued by how we process our experience - our senses are constantly bombarded with an extraordinary amount of information that we filter through our previous experiences and rearrange to create our own personal version of the world.  Without even realising it, we delete pieces of information that we consider unnecessary; we distort it to fit with our memories, both real and imagined; we make assumptions to fill in any gaps.  We conjure up a truth based on our own perception of reality.

As an artist, I unravel my own experience and rework it into a version of the truth that intentionally manipulates others to respond to from a starting point of my own considered perspective.  I use photography, drawing and painting to explore an idea, a moment, an image.  At an unconscious level I delete, distort and generalize.  Then I repeat the process with deliberate intent:  I select which pieces of information to use; I eliminate and exaggerate and fill in the gaps.  I retain control of the process only to the point where others' filters come into play.