Artist statement / Contact:

‘I make paintings that misbehave. They come together through collision, abrasion, and the occasional truce between colour and mark. Nothing is neat. Nothing is fixed. My studio overlooks Solsbury Hill, at the edge of shifting urban and natural environments, and this constant flux shapes the work. Canvases absorb grit, weather, and fragments of place. I work on multiple pieces at once, letting environment and uncertainty seep into each surface.

I draw energy ideas from Zen Buddhist practices of spontaneity and concepts of the void and artists who embraced rupture and reconstruction—from Kazuo Shiraga to Schwitters, Motherwell, Tàpies, John Hoyland—whose momentum, rather than style, threads through my practice. I’m interested in what survives disruption: how fragments—travel sketches, pavement textures, torn prints—shift from noise to necessity, and how doubt and interruption create their own logic.

Materials act as collaborators. Paint is poured and scraped; paper torn and reassembled; wood becomes relief. Colour remains intuitive, binding collages and large-scale canvases that evolve through cycles of building and undoing. I want the finished works to feel unsettled yet alive, as if still reconstructing themselves beyond the studio.’

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Education:

BA (Hons) Fine Art - University of East London, UK. (Exchange: Academy of Art University, San Francisco, California, USA)

Masters, Art & Ideology in Europe - Winchester School of Art / Southampton University, UK.