I make work about love, focusing not on the erotic but on different types of relationship with an exploration of desire, personal identity and longing. I make small figurative paintings as a means of creating an intimacy, working on them with small delicate marks that reflect my feelings of tenderness and longing for the image. I explore ideas of relationships both between and within the images including my personal relationship to the image and the viewer. My work is largely autobiographical, I often paint from images of my family. For me it has always been essential to remember myself as the central connection between each of my artworks and to acknowledge my own thwarted desires as such.