Vigorous overworked lines and naive scrawls create a textured palimpsest and emulate the frenzy of lists and obsessive bargain hunting. Colour is applied in a laconic and intuitive manner so that paint drips and weaves throughout the Textural surface and resembles poster pock-marked alley walls and the blur of a landscape dominated by advertising. The paintings could ultimately suggest pages from a manual of antidotes, an alternative blueprint to triumph over the complexities of modern life
