My work involves large scale paintings reflecting conflicting senses of intimacy and glamour. The use of luscious, textured makeup evoke an immediate sense of dazzle and seduction, whereas the scale and cropping can imply a certain exposed vulnerability. With my more recent work I have been looking into the abstraction of images by means of close cropping and heightened colour, the subject matter becomes ambiguous and almost irrelevant as the intricacies of the light reflected in the photograph take centre stage.