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 sits at the edge of shifting urban and natural environments, and this geography shapes how my paintings behave. My studio looks over to Solsbury Hill. The space can be noisy, provisional, always in flux, and the work absorbs this instability. Canvases gather grit, weather, fragments of movement and place; nothing settles for long. I work across several pieces at once, allowing the environment—and my own uncertainty—to seep into each surface.

I draw strength from artists who embraced rupture and reconstruction: Kurt Schwitters’ scavenged worlds, Robert Motherwell’s bold, intuitive decisions, Antoni Tàpies’ material gravitas, and John Hoyland’s fearless colour. Their influence threads through my practice, not as homage but as momentum.

My questions revolve around what survives disruption. What happens when an image is built through conflict rather than clarity? How can fragments—sketchbook scraps from travel, textures from pavements, notes, rubbings, shreds of print—shift from discarded noise to necessary matter? I’m interested in how doubt, impulse, and interruption can generate their own logic.

Materials are my collaborators in this process. Paint is poured, scraped, masked, scratched; paper is torn, pressed, and reassembled; wooden fragments become reliefs. Each action is a provocation, nudging the work toward an unstable equilibrium. Colour remains intuitive—an emotional undertow—linking small collages, mixed-media works on paper, and larger canvases reaching two metres. These surfaces evolve like barricades: built, destroyed, rebuilt, carrying the sediment of previous failures and sudden inventions.

I want the finished pieces to vibrate beyond the studio—leaving viewers with the sense that something has shifted, unsettled yet alive, as if the work continues to reconstruct itself long after they’ve walked away.’

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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.