About

My practice centres around painting and screen printing, with a focus on the possibilities of colour and hand-drawn and painted imagery. I am interested in how people construct meaning through stories and belief systems, and how this influences the ways we organise ourselves within society. I enjoy exploring these ideas to imagine possible futures through my own version of world building.

I work with symbolic and figurative imagery, combining elements that feel both familiar and strange. Figures, objects, and hybrid forms appear as characters within loosely constructed narratives, where meaning is deliberately not fully defined. These images often exist somewhere between humour and discomfort, drawing on visual language that feels playful and even decorative while also suggesting something more ambiguous or disquieting beneath the surface.

Colour is central to my practice. I am drawn to intense, saturated palettes that heighten emotional tone and create a sense of immediacy. Colour becomes both a visual tool and a conceptual device, capable of attracting, or even disrupting the viewer’s expectations. I am interested in the tension between seductive colourful surfaces and more unsettling imagery, and how this contrast can open-up space for multiple readings.

Screen printing plays a significant role in my process. I like to make hand drawn ink and oil pastel drawings to turn into screens to print on top of hand painted backgrounds. I value the physicality of the process. I enjoy the way marks and imperfections remain visible.

 Across both print and painting, I aim to retain a sense of directness, allowing the hand to remain present in the work rather than smoothing it away. As AI becomes an increasingly present part in everyday life, I feel it is ever more important to feel the human presence in my art to set it apart from machine made output.

While my work engages with ideas around identity, belief, and social structures, I am cautious of imposing fixed meanings onto the viewer. In a cultural landscape shaped by a constant competition for ‘mind share’, I am interested in resisting the pressure to direct interpretation or assert authority. Instead, I aim to create open-ended spaces where viewers can encounter the work on their own terms. The images are not intended to instruct or persuade, only to invite the viewer to look and to take it from there on their own terms.

Whilst I am interested in creating work that offers both visual pleasure and conceptual depth, where viewers can find their own points of connection, interpretation, and enjoyment, ultimately, my practice is about exploring my own ideas and thoughts through the creative process.

In a strange way the ‘art’ output at the end of the process, is the contents of my thoughts spewed out in colour and symbols across the canvas or paper. The ‘art’ often feels semi-autobiographical and that I am naked in front of the viewer in a way I never would be by just taking my clothes off.