I enjoy telling a story, using personal symbolism within my art, and I find this can help me function in my life exterior to an artwork. When painting or creating sculptures, I go into my own world where emotions are worked through differently. Situations make sense in their own way, presenting themselves to me afresh, similar to that of a dream. I create mystical landscapes that hold hints of a narrative, yet are left ambiguous for the viewer. I have a certain affinity with the composition of renaissance paintings and it is the fragments of architecture and peculiar settings in which many figures are often placed, that inspire me the most.