Artist statement
My practice is rooted in drawing, painting, and printmaking, and focuses on the body as fluid, unstable, and continually shaped by experience. I work from live sketches, photographs, memory, and observation, borrowing bodily characteristics from people close to me as well as strangers briefly encountered in everyday spaces. These fragments are merged into composite figures that shift between familiarity and distortion, where multiple narratives overlap within a single image.
I am interested in the idea that we are made up of the people we encounter and the experiences we carry. Faces bleed into one another, bodies overlap, and forms dissolve, suggesting a constant state of becoming rather than a fixed identity. Through flowing lines, layered marks, and moments of disruption, I try to visualise this instability and the way the body can exist as both as a presence and a trace.
My process is intuitive. I often begin with abstract drawings, allowing marks to develop freely before recognisable forms emerge. I then respond to these discoveries, building images through layered painting or print processes. These methods have encouraged me to loosen control and allow materials to guide outcomes.
Colour has become increasingly important as an expressive tool, used in thin, shifting layers to create depth and an internal sense of light. I am interested in how colour can bind figures together while also dissolving their edges, creating a sense of bodies emerging and fading at the same time. Across my work, drawing and painting function as a form of visual journaling, where lived moments, memories, and encounters are continuously translated into shifting visual forms.