After graduating with a BA (Hons) Fine Art from Falmouth University in 2009, I started work in hospitality and my dedication to this career left little time for art.

In 2019, I opened a specialty coffee shop in Frome, a year later the pandemic forced businesses to temporarily close and with it an opportunity to paint. In 2024, following illness, I closed the shop and fully committed to life as an artist.

Diagnosed with cancer at five, I spent long periods in hospital, finding calm in observing patterns—tiles, curtains, window frames. In these moments, I looked for order within chaos, stability within flux. Returning to these forms becomes a meditation on how I inhabit the world, where observation and memory overlap.

Working with acrylic on natural linen, my paintings begin with intuitive drawing—an open, repetitive process. This becomes both method and subject: a way of thinking through making. 

The paintings do not depict the specific but instead evoke internal states that resist fixed definition. I think of them as “democratic paintings,” where meaning emerges through the viewer’s perception.

Ultimately, the paintings ask: can shape, colour, and pattern themselves hold emotion?