My work explores the world through painting; using colour to capture the joy and tenderness of being human.

I paint my own experience… the people and places around me, the plants that fill a space, the small moments that catch my curiosity. People often become a metaphor for time, while nature is their companion… both changing, vunerable, both resilient. Sometimes I use gilding to draw attention to what feels precious or enduring - a way of honouring the overlooked, like memory itself catching the light. I’m drawn to the stories things hold and places about people when they’re no longer there, and how traces of memory linger in objects, rooms and light.

Each painting is a record of noticing; a way of paying attention to the quiet, ordinary beauty that connects us all. Subject matter varies but the same motifs often appear, drawn from art history, pop culture and literature. Each image begins as an observation, a question… an opportunity to find the answer by looking more closely.

Through this process, I try to understand how we live alongside change; how nature persists, and how we as humans keep tending to life even as it alters its form.