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My work is both a response to the beauty of this world and reminiscence of the joy of play as a child.

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I am now 50 years old and my work reflects the era in which i have lived. I can remember that London during the 1960's still had some bomb-sites and steam trains.​ Some of my paintings reflect my emotional response to things that I saw during my early childhood.

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I think a lot about my own grandparents, they were larger-than-life figures to me and stories about their life events have helped me with conceptual ideas for a whole body of paintings.

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As I have got older, memories of my childhood holidays and later with my own children have become significant to me and I have tried to record this in my work. I seek to understand the emotions you feel during your lifetime and I hope that when you get older you do not lose the gentleness and sentimentality that you possess as a child.

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I am inspired and moved by the way of life portrayed in British films from the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's.

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My work is also about war which is an unhealthy obsession. I have a fear of what Hitler stood for and my early sculptures reflect this fear and show in an abstract way destroyed buildings in Europe during 1945. I regularily think about the battle of Stalingrad and I use imagery from this battle to help with ideas for paintings. The German Expressionist movement and German history in general are an influence on my work.

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The meaning of my work exists in a juxtaposition between the nostalgia of family picnics and the horror of the British retreat at Dunkirk. Joy and fear, good and evil seem to fighting it out in paintings, especially in more recent work. This is an on-going struggle with no end in sight.