Painting not what is, but what ought to be

Have you ever experienced an emotion in a dream which you rarely, or perhaps never experience in waking life?

Perhaps it was a feeling of 'coming home', or an experience of perfect freedom, or the truest of love. In the same way that these dreams can point to latent possibilities, I believe art also points to possibilities. To potential worlds.

In this spirit I paint worlds that I wish to inhabit, even if on the surface they may seem impossible, or more idealised than what we think of as real. What we can imagine, must on some level exist.