These abstract paintings express the overlapping, fragmented and dynamic experiences we take from place and space. The physical world provides underlying structures for the paintings: lines of wheat straw fallen from a roof as it was being thatched, or the tension of a young man’s arms as he speaks of friends killed in conflict. Within these structures I layer colour and texture, each new gesture responding to what is already in place. Collage allows interruption of form and disruption of structure and colour, like a sudden flash of memory.