Open box containing used oil paint tubes in various colors, with a decorated fabric lid.

I explore the relationship between internal and external reality. My working position is that the distinction between these two dimensions is a measurement problem rather than an existential one. Feelings, energy and thoughts are as real as material objects: yes, invisible, but so is air; yes, hard to map, but so is the bottom of the sea; yes, elusive, but everyone knows how powerful they are.

My current focus within this broader enquiry is kindness as a civilisational choice - the hesitation before sharing, the moment the hand softens, the decision to prioritise another's happiness over one's own; though the same framework could be applied equally to vengeance, heroism, or stoicism among other examples of counter-survival and thus ultimately human acts.

My process is meditative and intuitive; paintings often begin as psychological sensations rather than images. I think of the work as alchemy: transforming emotion into matter that can transmit energy back to the viewer.

My work