“I remember being terrified as my Grandfather’s goose nipped at my heals while I frantically tried to run up the steep flight of stairs. I returned 30 years later to discover those stairs were only three steps.”

I’ve always been fascinated the memories people have of their life’s experiences. And I’ve been especially interested in childhood memories. In my work I explore and transform personal memory and the past. Through my own memories and memories of others, my histories and my photographic archives, I try to represent that past.

Memories often reveal themselves in layers. I overlap fabric, images and paint to reflect his layering. Sometimes my paint and stains are blurred like the edges of memory. We seldom remember with sharp and exact detail, in the same way the edges of my work are not always sharp and exact.

Layers overlap as memories overlap. I often use fabric removed from the traditional stretchers to explain a certain narrative through the layering of fabric, paint and other embellishments. The lines and shapes are often in fragments, as are bits of our memory.

Images of family memories are easy to relate to, while not revealing specific histories. I use objects and figures to trigger memories of times, situations and emotions of the past.