About

I'm a painter based in Brighton, UK, working mostly in oil paint and drawing.  My work often begins with automatic mark-making - fragments, scribbles, traces that seem to come from elsewhere.  From there, forms begin to emerge: a cavorting figure, a flat-pack box, a remembered school corridor, or a shadow that might be someone else's.

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I'm interested in what's half seen or partly remembered.  That strange slippage between 'I think it was like this...' and 'Did that really happen?'.  Time loops, false memories, imagined futures - all of it is fair game..

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Much of this interest comes from my earlier life as a psychology researcher.  I spent years studying how people and groups construct their sense of self and construe memory.  Now I use paint instead of data, intuition instead of hypothesis.

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Themes of ambiguity, concealment, and transformation thread through my work.  I sometimes draw from art-history - reimagining a 17th century Susanna in oilstick - or from studies in perception - letting a Necker cube float above a table.  But I'm just as likely to be haunted by lockdown beachgoers or the architecture off my 1970s schooldays in the Barbican.

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My paintings don't always settle.  I like it that way.