the artist
“Most of all I would like people to come away from looking at my work feeling in some way uplifted. Painting for me is a self-reinforcing cycle of noticing the beauty around us, then looking more to find it.”
Anything I make is a jumbled-up result of the threads and scraps, clots of ideas and influences that have trickled into my head over my time on this earth, stuck together somehow. If it has to be painted, it's generally because it would be far harder to explain any other way.
I like the crookedness of a handmade thing. And the gold? Not Klimt, funnily enough. It's more the ornate solemnity of Polish Catholic churches: that reverence, and at least reaching for the possibility of being better than we are. I love that kind of care, the attention and thought poured into adorning an object, honouring it by making something beautiful.
At the same time, I want a painting to become something you look through rather than at: not just an object on a wall, but a shift in how you see the room around it, and maybe your own thoughts while you're standing there.
And that's about as much sense as I'm ever likely to make!
Thanks for taking the time to have a read.
interviews
Harrod Horticultural
It was such a pleasure to have been asked to collaborate with Harrod Horticultural for their Chelsea Pop on King’s Road ahead of their annual participation in the Chelsea Flower Show. This interview is from March 2025.
Jackson’s Art
I was lucky enough to be the Winner of Jackson’s Art ‘Atmospheric Acrylics’ Competition back in 2017. Here is the interview with Lisa Takahashi.
Past Exhibitions & events
