I created Mirror Image a year ago and it has been so hard to let go of. This was the last painting I made in my little laundry room that I used to call a studio. It was more like a sauna really, a tight space crammed in my home where I fantasised about my future as an artist. I believe that all those feelings and fantasies were transported to the canvas when I painted this piece.

She was made to headline my second solo show and was deeply inspired by an idea of reflecting on dreams and the fear of having them deflected back, never to return. The three muses that sit in the middle of the vase remind me of a mirror, a fun house mirror where each one is slightly different from the next, but still the same. I like to believe that our world, and our perspective of the world around us is a collection of reflections, of who we are, what we want, how we see ourselves and the people around us. Half the flowers are blooming, half of them are dying, the contrasting colours, all of these themes of imperfect repetition are what tie everything together for me. After all we can only experience life through contrast all though we never realize that the two sides of one thing are what makes the the whole. With the tiny skull at the bottom of the vase, almost hidden, there is also a reminder of how external reflections are only as real as what we make them to be. Things are only how we perceive them and these perceptions are a reflection of who we are.