"The dioramas grew out of a very strong need to take some of my painted imagery and try it in three dimensions .I wanted to see if this imagery could be changed into a form that breathed new life into the rather static two dimensional form of traditional art works.

The dioramas are made from scavenged materials. I'm a great plunderer of builder's skips, commercial bins, etc. All the works are a combination of cardboard, polystyrene, wood, and tree twigs. This material is cut, sanded and painted, then glued together.

The dioramas explore themes that have also been explored in the paintings of the Australian series.

Each one is a little world - exposed, but contained, under a perspex canopy."