Paintings invested with tender, heavy, grubby humanity. Hopes, fears and desires are plumbed without judgement or romanticisation. 

The mark-making presents the same expressive vocabulary as the artist’s wooden sculpture. A stuttering fragmented gesture aligns with the mixed fortunes of a broken branch; a flowing lyrical line holds tension like a finely carved surface. In this context these are working drawings. They are a place to explore base humanity, to develop a language of concealment and revealing.