My non-figurative paintings begin with the trace of a body. Silhouettes of real and imagined figures dissolve into shape, becoming structures I can rearrange and test. I use them to build a space that feels open, a place the viewer can step into rather than simply look at.

Play sits at the centre of this process. It allows for looseness, for risk, for the unexpected connection. In that state, perception sharpens and new relationships between forms, gestures, and thoughts can emerge.

Nature and the human experience remain quiet anchors. I move between the organic and the abstract, letting one slip into the other until the boundary becomes uncertain. Colour, pattern, and texture carry the work forward, holding memory, sensation, and fragments of thought.

Painting, for me, is a conversation. Each mark tests something, shifts something, leaves something unresolved. The work asks the viewer to meet it halfway, to bring their own associations and rhythms of looking. What unfolds is not fixed, but something that happens in time, between the painting and the person standing in front of it.