Simonides of Create said "Painting is mute poetry and poetry is a speaking picture" that fusion of the verbal with the visual I find very appealing as a painter.
Consequently I have long been influenced by the work of Dylan Thomas, amongst other poets, but in particular his unfinished master work "Under Milk wood", for the past three years I have been working on a visual interpretation of "Under Milk Wood". Living in a small Cornish village I see so many parallels to the characters and events from Thomas’s play daily, however a paradox exists in that we are losing our sense of community and individualism so quickly, subsequently I enjoy investigating the notions of identity and personality whilst questioning the place of classicism in postmodernist practice and the relevance of certain set social and gender stereotyping in time-honoured communities.