Photography is of importance to my painting practice as it is most often the starting point for the image. It functions not as an image to copy but rather as the theoretical and formal undercarriage that the painting develops around. I am interested in images and publications that represent our constant drive toward progress, expansion and the control and mastery over both our own experience and the surrounding environment. In this way the paintings aim to explore larger questions of human ideology and progress all the while questioning the authority of both the original image and the paint. The painting, as a process, becomes increasingly important in relation to these ideas in its own questions of control and disintegration.

“Vacation can pay at Paradise Island Resort and Casino for gamblers who get lucky at the gaming tables or for the canny bettors who bone up on tax law in the hotel pool before crossing the bridge to Nassau and its money houses.”- NG Sept 1982, Acrylic on Linen - 150 X 150 - 2007