Drawing for me is an ongoing passion and an integral part of the daily pleasure of being a restless image-maker. Originally, I considered my pen and ink drawings to be staging areas for unformulated ideas and future projects. I consider them now to be finished works in their own right, rather than random pages of sketches or studies.

Pen and ink on paper enable me immediacy in "the field", which is vastly different from the quiet, modulated pace of the studio. It is this direct link from mind to hand to paper rather than the encumbered process of image building that I have always explored by means of this medium.

My journal is a vessel for ideas both rudimentary and fully conceived, for personally relevant news clippings, calligraphy and photography. I incorporate elements of natural history, science, human figure and architecture.

All of the drawings in this exhibition have been taken from this journal.

I gratefully acknowledge the influences of the Dutch Vanitas still life painters of the 16th centuries such as Albrecht Durer, Georg (Joris) Hofnaegel, Hans Holbein the Younger and their contemporaries.