I use Augmented Reality / Magical Reality to create this series. I begin each piece with things that are real or tangible: items found in my studio, including among other things, open paint jars, a dried rose, books and magazines. Some of these elements are painted in oil and pigment on birch-wood panel while are others are photo impressions adhered to the surface.

Instead of using digital imagery to alter the ‘real world’ environment that is represented on the painting’s surface, I draw on my imagination, adding in lushly painted red lips ,exotic butterflies and sometimes people. This merging of real and imagined which I see as belonging together, creates a third world, yet another reality.