‘Erasure is never merely a matter of making things disappear.’
  Brian Dillon

For the past three years my work has been focussed on several concepts: a process of simultaneously additive and subtractive mark-making, the erasure and revelation of a surface and the physical nature of materials worked with.

Over time the outcome of these ideas has transformed significantly, developing from paintings, to work which now has much more in common with the issues of drawing.

I understand erasure within art as a continuous cycle of creation and destruction, one always working against the other to form an equilibrium. In using plywood panels and a high speed, rotating cutting tool called a router I draw into the surface of the wood; simultaneously erasing and creating a mark.

I use plywood for its multiple layers which provide variations in colour, texture and quality. By cutting into this surface with different shapes at alternating depths I am able to reveal the nuances in the material.

These large scale pieces hold a direct relationship with the prints and drawings on paper I also produce. Although the methods differ, each outcome always informs the other.