The territory between reality and fiction is explored through the construction of imagined interiors that that act as a point of departure for the drawings. Referencing imagery from interiors magazines and historical painting that present idealised domestic interiors the fictional compositions subtly break the conventions of representation. The discordant awkwardness of the perspective, lighting, and composition questions the enigma of appearances, estranging the work from ordinary visual experience so that it slips into an unhomely reflection of the human psyche or the projection of a fleeting emotional state.
The highly finished charcoal drawings are finely rendered using a labour intensive process of layering that carefully distributes deposits of charcoal onto the surface. Tonal value is achieved by controlling the extent to which the texture of the ground shows through the spread of black. In this sense we are presented with the materiality of the surface as much as the image.
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