I'm a contemporary figurative painter working primarily with acrylics and oil on canvas. My preferred method of working is to draw and paint from life, where my focus is on capturing in paint the effects of light and colour within a scene before me at a particular point in time. I focus on subjects close to my immediate environment which include landscape, still life and portraits. I also enjoy utilising the everyday and overlooked in my work in an effort to recognise the beauty present within our world and to portray the extraordinary that exists within the ordinary. I also try to be playful and maybe a little bit irreverent in my work. I am influenced in part by life in the beautiful South West of W. A, pop culture and the work of other artists I admire.