"...Homes are no more than the people who live in them." Nancy ReaganMy work is a poetic statement that addresses my curiosity and fascination with houses particularly at night. Their silhouettes, set against a dark sky and eerie their glow from within reminds me of a strangeness and charm. I had an urge to depict them in a fantastical, none too literal and visceral way. I have come to understand the meaning of a home and the importance of its mere space and presence. To start with a home is an impersonal space or object but becomes an alive and wholesome sanctuary on which foundations of comfort and love are built. The way in which we choose to survive through the repetition, ritual and routine of our existence whereby we walk down the same street, through the same door and into that same room of our homes at times makes us incredibly hungry for change but also grateful for the recognizable comfort.Whilst creating theses paintings I was revisited by the nostalgia of my childhood and also of a place I once resided that become home encompassing the feelings of warmth, happiness but also of removal and loss and is in the playfulness or darkness with which I depict them. I was greatly inspired by Phillip Guston's and Marc Chagall's obscure abstract shapes of houses and the strangeness and characterizations of them that make them so sureal and detached from reality.Artists that I have been researching are Matisse’ painting ‘The Silence That Lives in Houses', (1947) and inspires me to delve in the mysterious world of houses at night and explore them in all their variety and unique, Van Gogh ‘The Yellow House’, (1888) and Philip Guston, Marc Chagall, Grant Wood, Edward Hopper's window painting 'Girl at Sewing Machine' (1921).