The inspiration for my paintings is nature and my home environment. My paintings have been dominated for years with an evolving personal iconography including sky, clouds, landscape and interior spaces, dry fallen branches and bird wings. I love Medieval painting and sculpture and much of my painting practice reflects that interest. I draw inspiration from that time period’s use of iconography, not with its implicit religious symbolism but with the imagery as conceptual content and the care with which it is composed and painted. Aside from that time period’s somewhat ubiquitous religious subject matter, I am drawn to the higher content, that being pure spirituality. I see a clear transcendent message in the magic of the gaze, painting to viewer and viewer to image. Through practice, I too, strive to make a pure thing.