Artist statement

My practice moves between painting and sculpture, exploring themes of transformation, mythology, and the shifting textures of the natural world. I am drawn to places of overlap and uncertainty — where land meets sea, where memory drifts into dream, and where material and meaning are in constant flux. Through both two- and three-dimensional work, I create spaces that feel both familiar and otherworldly, inviting contemplation rather than fixed narratives.

Colour and material play equally important roles in my work. In my paintings, deep blues and greens evoke water, shadow, and twilight landscapes, while flashes of orange, gold, and rust carry a sense of warmth and hidden energy. In my sculptural practice, material transformation is central — processes such as casting and layering allow one substance to become another, shifting both its physical properties and symbolic meaning. These contrasts and transformations speak to cycles of decay and renewal, darkness and illumination, that run through both natural systems and inner worlds.

My process is slow and accumulative. Whether building a painted surface through layers of pigment and glaze, or working sculpturally through moulding and casting, I am interested in how materials hold traces of time, touch, and memory. Texture becomes a way of thinking — a record of making as much as an image or form.

Living and working in West Wales deeply informs my practice. The landscape, weather, and local folklore offer a continual source of imagery and rhythm, grounding my work in a place where myth and everyday experience feel closely intertwined. Across both painting and sculpture, my work exists as a series of in-between spaces — meditations on transformation, belonging, and the thresholds between the seen and unseen.

Bio

I was born and grew up in Brighton, England, and in 2007 I moved to West Wales with my partner, musician and performer Sputnik Weazel. Drawn in by the landscape, the weather, and the rhythms of life here, we have made this place our home. Living and working in West Wales continues to shape my practice, grounding it in a landscape where myth, memory, and the natural world feel closely intertwined.

I trained in Fine Art Sculpture, and my practice began with a strong focus on sculptural processes, though it has always moved fluidly between materials and forms. In recent years, my work has shifted toward painting and collage, allowing me to explore more intuitive, layered ways of working. While my materials have evolved, my fascination with transformation has remained constant — particularly the ways myth, folklore, and fairy tales shape how we understand ourselves and the world around us.

The stories we absorb in childhood often become the frameworks through which we interpret experience. Over time, these narratives turn into personal mythologies, quietly influencing our sense of identity and belonging. My work explores this fertile, in-between territory — where inner worlds meet shared cultural stories, and where meaning is continuously made and remade.

Casting was fundamental to my early practice, and the idea of one material transforming into another still informs how I think about making. This interest in material and symbolic transformation runs through my work today, alongside an ongoing curiosity about the cultural significance we attach to objects, places, and images. My background in Social Anthropology, which I studied at Sussex University in my early twenties, deeply informs this approach and sparked a lasting fascination with meaning-making, mythology, and the stories we live by.