"I find it difficult to talk about my work; maybe this is because I don’t consider it ‘work’. Or there is no ‘work’ to talk about? I know how to use oil paint and with my knowledge I am able to re-present my surroundings in paint. For this exhibition I have tidied my studio. At first glance the objects are essential studio props; but the tokens of my visual and intellectual inspiration are functionless. Their purposes are silenced; in a painted translation they are mute. The door is permanently closed, the notice board tells you nothing, and the hand of Goya, for example, has been removed from the reproduction of his famous painting. It took one layer of white paint to kill this bike.

Influences: Gerhard Richter, Velasquez, Jackson Pollock, Cezanne, Anselm Kieffer, Marcel Merleau Ponty, Jorges Louis Borges, Max and the wild things."