I explore how people experience and understand the world, capturing moments of life in flux and shedding light on oft-unseen spaces. I am passionate about art’s potential social impact: its ability to raise awareness and ignite conversations.

 

Recent work documents the transformation of young people onboard UK Sail Training vessels (charities). I am now collaborating with the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Edinburgh, offering unique insights into its activities. The commonality between these subjects is their profound unity between people and their environment (vessel or surgical theatre). Fully immersed, at sea or during surgery, what it means to be human is made apparent: teamwork, communication, and tolerance.

 

My practice explores the materiality of paint: the marks that show the artist's presence, the layers of paint that came before, and how time, memory, and recollection of a moment can change the embodiment of the painting. I aim to construct paintings with juxtaposing intensities of paint: translucent and suggestive marks contrasting opaque intricate areas, capturing flux and movement. This approach incorporates my memory while engaging viewers to interpret ambiguity according to their memories, emotions, and imagination. I am interested in how collective and individual identities and memories differ, with each person uniquely interpreting the same events.

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