I am a UK-based abstract painter and socially engaged artist. My practice explores the emotional, political, and collective dimensions of artmaking, often shaped by collaboration, community, and lived experience. Working primarily with large-scale acrylics, mixed media, and tactile materials, I create expressive, layered compositions that respond to themes of belonging, inequality, and cultural access.
Alongside my studio work, I run creative outreach sessions for individuals within mental health services, offering space for people to explore identity, healing, and self-expression through art. This social dimension of my practice is deeply rooted in my journey as a working-class artist navigating creative spaces that often feel exclusive or inaccessible.
My current work is influenced by the vibrant artist networks I’ve built in Sussex, where I’m based, and my academic background in Fine Art and Cultural Heritage. I’m especially interested in building inclusive infrastructure for artists, spaces that don’t just host art but nurture it. My long-term goal is to establish a shared studio and exhibition space for underrepresented creatives, combining artistic practice with cultural equity.
Through painting, I aim to hold space for both chaos and clarity, layered with energy, memory, and intention. Whether working solo or with others, my art is always about connection: between people, place, and process. Consuming patterns and vibrant licks of paint fill each surface I touch. I like to dance with my paint strokes, every application bringing me closer to equilibrium. The act of making allows a release of energy as I become engulfed in the vivid stimuli at my fingertips. With each piece, I aim to create a sense of obsession and overindulgence. I like to take my work to a place where the surface is almost overconsumed, forever pushing the boundary of maximalism and harmony in the composition. Discovering new sequences and hominin in the dynamic relationship between my emotional state and the repetitive motions of patterns has been the core motivation for these pieces.
I have carried on my exploration of atomism and intuitive painting through an extensive exploration of colour and forms. Developing the interplay of colour and depth has allowed for more complex forms to emerge. Through researching Mongolian artworks, I discovered that design can be used to carve implied pictorial space. Playing around with this concept has been essential in adding dimension and complexity, which has been particularly successful in my later pieces. Attempts to manipulate the eye to follow a certain direction around the artwork have been made.
