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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Before returning to painting, I worked as a psychology researcher studying how people and groups construct a sense of self and how memory is made and remade.  Those questions persist in the work, although now I use paint instead of data and intuition instead of hypothesis.

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Ambiguity, concealment, and transformation thread through the paintings.  I might draw from art-history. Perception and fragments from personal memory are folded together, altered and sometimes misremembered.  

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

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Selected recognition

Turps Offsite Programme, 2023-2025

Jackson's Art Prize - Longlisted 2025 and 2026.

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