Drawn from memory or otherwise imagined it constructs familiar situations that become stranger, starker and perhaps funnier in their recall. People walking and talking, alone or in groups, nearly always at work, being measured or measuring, standing or falling. It's mostly about men and how we jostle and posture. I'm interested as much in the comedy as I am the tragedy.

But I forget as much as the next man and the act of remembering is inevitably as much about invention as it is about distillation. So the works are figments as well as fragments, partial reconstructions of moments lived out in spaces that are much more dramatic than the neutrality of the decor would immediately suggest!

Painting, in its history and materials, provides both the precedents and opportunity that the work seeks to exploit.

But maybe a recent visitor to my studio put it better, she said: "It's like a mixture of Goya, Monsieur Hulot's Holiday and Muybridge."