The dreamscape paintings ask audiences to consider peripheries and the things that lie beneath the surface. Relationships are forged between the inner and outer world and a strange mix of imagery heighten senses.

The paintings encourage bridges to be left open between the unconscious and conscious states to allow embedded emotions and imagery to be revealed. The metaphysical worlds that Purcell creates relate to haiku, and it is by this method that she wishes the paintings to be read. As in a dream, it is futile to attempt interpretation, it is enough to be transported into the ghostly after-image of an intangible experience.

It is as though each mark has been applied with the knowledge of its potential contents. Perspective is skewed, and our perception is left wondering whether we are looking at a cross section of a microscopic image, or of a far distant land. This visual acuity is further justification of the ambiguity of these paintings. The neither here nor there space, the in between space, and the irreal space all converge in these pictures.

These paintings do not attempt to provide answers but instead thrive on the uncertainty, allowing the mystery of the painting process to divulge meaning. The materiality of these works are akin to the nature of the subliminal world; unpredictable and layered. Glazes sit alongside painterly marks and fine washes of colour. The process is both laborious and playful, considered and spontaneous, much the same as a dream can simultaneously reveal hidden memories and superficial experiences.