The Oni drawings, a Japanese word meaning ogre or devil, started off as side project but ended up influencing my main work, leading to the Oni Landscape and Landscape Assemblage series' . The Oni images, as supernatural creatures, have no need to follow the prescribed framework of academic drawing, giving the works the freedom to expand into their undefined world. As the majority of my drawings had been figurative this structural relaxing of the rules allowed my drawings to expand and move into new areas.