I don't set out to produce work about any particular subject, object or place, my work is primarily from memory and imagination.

The work I have produced recently has been painted from small Photoshop prints I made, I call them doodles. They were intended as a challenge, for me they conjure up a variety of images I have seen in the past. The colours and tones are very important for me, I love bright, saturated colours, they need to jump out, and I'm always trying to use colour in different ways. I have a colour blindness, which has sometimes caused a few problems, painting a pink Labrador for one example.

I was always interested in drawing and painting from a very young age, it's something I loved doing. I excelled in art at all ages. I gained a place on a general Art & Design National Diploma course at my local college in East Ham, which I started on my 17th birthday in 1989. Eventually I studied Fine Art BA Hons at the West Surrey College of Art & Design, Farnham, Surrey.

Doing an artist statement isn't easy because I've never liked to explain a certain piece of work, if you've made a picture and that's how you wanted it to be, hopefully it can speak for itself and whatever it says to the viewer is okay for me. Each person takes something a little different from the same picture. The way work develops and evolves is something I love most about painting.

Eventually I'd like my work to develop into environmental subjects.

Artists I love most are, Chagall, Kandinsky, Cezanne, Dali, and the Pre-Raphaelites.