I paint narrative. It's true. I can't help it, it's what I love to do. And if you paint people in a scene, then it possesses narrative. You can't escape it. I don't think this is a bad thing. Narrative is fundamental to our experiences. We see things as having beginnings, middles and ends - even our own lives. It's intrinsic to us.

But I don't often set out to paint any specific narrative, I paint scenes that have stuck in my head; things I have seen, and found beautiful and memorable.

Yet memory tends to generalise and stereotype the things outside our direct importance, so that instead of my remembering a scene with this person and that building, I remember something more like ‘this type of person and that type of building'. I enjoy the way that this can result in images at once individual and universal.

To read about 'POSTCARDS FROM HOME', the 2006 exhibition, click here.

To read about 'VENICE 4274', the 2005 exhibition, click here.