My work is concerned with the subtly metaphysical and uncanny aspects I have found in seemingly ordinary and unoccupied interiors. I play with tensions between absence and presence by painting a moment of stasis between human comings and goings, real space and imagined, where one is not sure what has or is about to happen. I achieve this through discreetly negotiating the boundaries between the concepts of reality, unreality, the sublime and the contemplative working with oils and glazes on board and on a small and intimate scale to draw the viewer in. The spaces are beautiful and calm but somewhat unnerving, temporary and strange. As the buildings are vessels for our bodies to inhabit the paintings of their spaces become chambers for the mind to contemplate.