"This work is from a series of titled ‘Chieftain’, that I made in response to an artefact in the collection of the Wiltshire Museum. The composition is built up from later upon layer of silkscreen printing of a single image - a gold lozenge, found in the burial site of the Bush Barrow Chieftain, who was buried close to Stonehenge in Britain’s richest Bronze Age burial.

The lozenge is made of sheet gold decorated with incised lines, that show a detailed knowledge of geometry, and would have been wrapped around a thin piece of wood. It was found on the Chietain’s chest and is believed to have fastened his cloak.

Through layer upon layer of print, drawing, paint and medium, the repetition of the source image gives way to a complex abstract composition. Precise drawing intersects with splashes of ink and gestural painterly marks, combining to form an implied landscape."