I treat my work as a way of exploring and understanding the world. It is a tool. I make abstract paintings that explore new environments, allowing them to influence the direction of my practice. My expanded paintings are responsive to site, place and systems. My current painting practice replicates the Tangram (a Chinese traditional puzzle) to understand and expose how systems, networks and sections fit or do not fit together. Through the different arrangement of the tangrams, different stories can be told. I am interested in the possibilities the tangram allows and how this enables an audience to think about traditions, harmony and disharmony. While allowing relationships to unfold this gives the opportunity of chance to grow. The recent work is based on tangram and the five elements in China (Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth). Throughout my processes I expand on specific pigments and materials to interlink the relationship between the five elements. Using a range of techniques from burning, collecting, cutting, the painted surface acts as a vessel to contextualize my personal journey throughout everyday life, nature and practice.