Artist Statement

Curiosity is what keeps me painting, experimenting.

Trying to find that unattainable perfect painting.

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Throughout the years I always come back to the same themes: connection, longing, love, loss, hope.

I approach these themes in a surrealistic style with the aim to bridge the gap between fantasy and reality. The idealised perception of connection and longing, that perfect place in which to belong. Wishful thinking versus the reality of the human condition, the struggle with mental health, expectations, the need to be accepted and fit in, not feeling comfortable with oneself and others.  A lot of my more recent paintings are about wishful thinking and as an optimist, I believe that hope and being able to imagine a better world, a better situation, helps propel us forward.

Hands are one of my main subjects as they are good at expressing emotions, and I use a lot of colour to guide the viewer through my sometimes sombre, sometimes playful, paintings. As a viewer approaches my work, I want them to feel seen and understand that it is normal to go through a range of emotions, that there is no need to hide from them, but that there is always hope too. I also want to appeal to their sense curiosity, to explore the paintings and then to look beyond the paintings and into themselves.