'Painting is the art which reminds us that time and the visible come into being together...' this quote by John Berger appeared in the Art magazine 'Turps Banana' ( really worth checking out if you are a painter). Time, by referencing memory, the past and present, with the visible representations that have been depicted in paint in order to access a subject on a deeper level. This probably sums up one of my main motivations in my work at the moment, which I am trying to achieve by sourcing images from various places - personal photographs and those from the media, stills from T.V. and film, and iconography from Early Romantic Paintings; Combining and layering to produce something that has a timeless, infintessimal quality by which I hope will evolve into another dimension. This is my starting point.