Statement

"I am a Lancashire-born, London-based painter, working from an initial engagement with place, memory, and perception. My practice begins with the search for a meaningful location, landscapes or environments that hold emotional or historical resonance. These sites are first recorded through photography, then gradually translated through painting into increasingly abstract forms.

"I am interested in how we interpret visual information: how the eye and mind construct meaning, locate subject, and form emotional connections within a two-dimensional surface. My work explores the shifting boundary between representation and abstraction, inviting moments of recognition while allowing forms to dissolve into ambiguity. The paintings sit between the seen and the remembered, the physical and the emotional.

"Negative space plays an active role in my compositions. What is removed or obscured becomes as significant as what is rendered, creating rhythm, balance, and areas of pause. These open spaces allow the work to breathe while subtly directing the viewer’s attention, encouraging a slower, more reflective engagement.

"Layering is central to my process. Working primarily with water-based materials on wood, I build and erase surfaces, embracing chance and ‘happy accidents’. The grain of the wood becomes part of the image, grounding the work in the materiality of the natural world. Each painting evolves through a dialogue between control and unpredictability, gesture and precision.

"I often geo-locate the source of each work, anchoring it to a precise point in space while acknowledging that experience of place is always subjective and changeable. Ultimately, my paintings act as visual records, an aide-mémoire, mapping personal encounters with landscape, and reflecting on how memory and place continually shape one another."