'Gleaming and Inaccessible' is a series of paintings about artificial continuity. The continuity of style in these images is meant to be disconcerting – as though the paintings were merely a companion to a life of equal continuity. The vibrant colours, the upward gaze, and the twilight zone that these paintings convey – all of this is somehow constantly repeated. And yet, these are images that captivate the gaze, for each of them shows something special and specific within the similar. Each tree is a unique individual, its black silhouette challenges us to conjure our own impression– an impression of the kind of tree, and the kind of place, that we desire. It is also the stillness of the twilight – that zone between day and night – that brings the narrative alive in these paintings. For the scenes these paintings portray conjure places – even if they are artificially composed – that have been shaped by people and by civilization, and exude a calmness in the way they simply are, and in the way they tell of what might happen and what should happen. Gleaming and Inaccessible is a system of iconography that  shows images of places in the tradition of landscape painting, but the nature they portray is shaped by human hand and marked by civilization, including the discarded and the technologically outmoded. There are trees that often turn out to be not trees at all, but cell-phone towers – merely camouflaged in a way that seems familiar to the eye. And then there are the billboards: they soar heavenwards, their advertising space seeming to reflect a light that comes from outside the picture – colorful rather than black like the other objects that are the focus of interest. Conceived as carriers of information, they appear in these works as nothing but colorful planes set against the painted sky. Perhaps they reflect the ubiquitous excess of information that merely lurks in order to propose some business transaction that will continue to propel society along its given trajectory.

The perpetual ending, acrylic on panel, 30 X 40in, 2013

Devereux, acrylic on panel, 36 X 24in, 2015

I'll Be Your Mirror, acrylic on panel, 30 X 40in, 2017

El Camino Real, acrylic on panel, 30 X 18in, 2017

Jack-Knife, acrylic on panel,, 30 X 40in, 2017

Away away says hate closer closer says love, acrylic on panel, 30 X 18in, 2017

Total Lack Of Remorse, acrylic on panel, 36 X 24in, 2017