I began drawing at two years old, developing a passion for making pictures which has continued throughout my life. My aim is to produce technically immaculate paintings which often contain subversive imagery, a paradox at once seducing and challenging the viewer. I paint because it is an obsession, something like a drug, and therefore occasionally exhilarating but more usually a necessity. My pictures are compositions of the imagination, perhaps a modern “vanitas”, a personal interpretation of the allegories of the senses.