A long term fascination with the imaginative effect (shape and detail) of myth informs the Theseus cycle of paintings. As a sub-set of the Classical paintings, this series adds another layer to the mix, namely an attempt to find a distinctly visual approach to the notion of narrative within an 'abstract' pictorial grammar. The series explores some of the complexities and subtleties of the structure of narrative, exploiting aspects of event , episode, sequence and the idea of cycle itself.

The images operate a direct call on sensation in the viewer through the physicality of the tactile surfaces and the dense relationships of colour. Through the particular organisation of elements, they attempt to evoke, using association and inference, rather than to describe. Using Edvard Munch's organic and metaphorical series The Frieze of Life as a model, the Theseus cycle develops an accumulative effect in pursuit of the status of painterly epic.