Artist Statement

My practice is rooted in painting but unfolds through a collision of media: oil paint, spray paint, screen printing, collage, drawing, handwriting and graphic iconography. With a background in printed textiles and a career in visual design, I approach the canvas as a surface to be built and layered.

Patterns, textures and fragments of popular culture sit alongside classical elements, with surfaces disrupted by glitches, distortions and pentimenti: evidence of revision, hesitation and malfunction. Scraped back, reworked, written and printed upon, the paintings become both relic and record.

My work explores memory and the passing of time. Repeated images and sequences suggest cycles and transitions, moments suspended between what’s come before and what might happen next. Images become apparitions: spectral reminders of lives once lived and how quickly they disappear from view. Look away and it’s already passed.

Popular culture collides with political imagery and the machinery of power. Cartoons, familiar symbols and filmic references become insignia of innocence repurposed into metaphors for desire, violence and control. Beneath these images lies the collective psychosis of modern life: systems of domination dressed in sweetness, trauma disguised as nostalgia, a sugar-coated scream.