My latest body of work represents an autobiographical investigation of family and memory constructed around the relationship between family snapshots, portraiture and painting. Using old photographs as a starting point, I explore the subtext of the domestic story, burrowing into those uncomfortable places typically left out of the family album. Through a process of translation, projection, interpretation and re-creation into oil painting, memory becomes mutable and acquires new forms. Rather than following a strict narrative structure, the paintings act as vignettes, moving back and forth in time while paying homage to seminal stories that can structure early identity.