I felt like I had reached the end of a period of life, where the work was jumping about and pushing something new every time. I wanted to dial it bac….

There are things that inform the works, but that doesn't go anywhere near what you're actually looking at..

The moment is never perfect. It's like that right now - in my head I'm being super lucid, but you never are. You're always fumbling..

I'm a quiet person, I'm not a flashy art world person. I'm in the studio in the middle of nowhere. There's sheep and fields. The work has to be authe….

The paintings don't exist outside themselves. There's no lead photograph off the internet or anything like that. It all comes from my mind and it's a….

Small thoughts grow into a picture. It may suggest an individual or it may suggest a place, but generally the painting's job is to work that [idea] i….

Using painting as a metaphor for consciousness is what I'm interested in..

The paintings are kind of set in the past, present, and future all at once..

There are absences, but there are also presences. It's about how painting can evolve its own abstractions. I didn't know the painting was going to be….

There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it..

What really surprised me was how strange my paintings are anyway. To me, it's like, "Let's paint some portraits and some objects. Don't make it weird….