I'm driven to create contemporary art works which are filled with colour and optimism. Working with the repeated application and removal of gold and silver leaf on sculpted panels, combined with layers of translucent resin, light is able to refract and reflect, passing through the translucent colours; sunlight reflecting on the surface water, altering with the changing light of the day. My latest body of work is inspired by antiquity and the Byzantine period. The work is akin to a discovery, an adventure, the unearthing of treasures lost.