I have become interested in cartooning, via the means of painting, as a way to communicate the absurdity of what it is to be living. We feel that our world is imploding and apocalyptic at every other glaring headline, but we continue our daily, habitual routines in a steady, nonchalant and stultifying manner.

I often distort and combine ordinary objects and tools, figures (or caricatures of figures) of daily life by digesting the weird and often complementary relationships between them into comic arrangements and surreal narratives. Painting also allows me to heighten these aspects through touch and colour, while the compositional structures, that try to defy convention, are informed by and viewed through the lens of imagined still lives, figurative art and the process of collage.

This helps to compound the scenes by steeping them in their own absurd logic, as the subjects complete and perform their own illogical narratives.

Humour and existentialism, through parody and satire- as I try to reconcile them- are at the core of what I’m trying to get at.