OCEAN, 2025 - OIL ON CANVAS,  122CM X 91CM

LEMONADE, 2025 - OIL ON CANVAS,  122CM X 91CM

THE HEALER, 2025 - OIL ON CANVAS,  122CM X 91CM

BURST, 2025 - OIL ON CANVAS,  122CM X 91CM

I like to think of these characters that I paint as a kind of ticket out of madness, taking us towards a nwew state of mind. The faces in my paintings see something that I don’t. They seem to ache for a new feeling, a new way to be.

The women in these paintings could love you or tear your fucking head off at the same time and it sums up how I have always felt – both conflicted and in search of peace. There is such a love/hate thing with being human. I am always trying to paint these complex, terrifying and yet wonderful feelings that shift within us. I am restless, in constant flux with who I am supposed to be, especially for others and my images give me peace. They feel what I want to feel, they free me. 

The characters in my works are a bit like talismans. I’ve usually gone through quite a bit to get them here, layers and lots of wiping the image away and re-starting over the top, leaving tiny traces. The struggle within a work drags me into a new world, a certain kind of truth amongst what is often hidden within our many layers of subterfuge. 

The process of painting and drawing teaches me to look at failure differently. Mistakes are the only way forward and every work that I have ever made has felt like I am getting warmer, getting closer. Oil paint is all about perseverance. Oil painting itself is inherently hopeful, it’s all about knowing the materiality and somehow unknowing at the same time. It is a substance that feels fluid and unfixed, despite its connection to history and tradition, it’s the perfect metaphor for renewal. 

I often question an image that happens simply and yet those works can be the most powerful, the ones that come from inhibition, free from the idea of completion. It represents what we do to ourselves, we over-complicate, we over-look, we are never enough and yet it’s all there, if only we could see it.

I often feel like I could paint every day for the rest of my life and still not tire - and really, I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else in the world than in my studio. It puts me in touch with a feeling that is hard to explain, it brings me closer than anything else to the feeling of being alive. 

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LOBSTER ROLL, 2025 - OIL ON CANVAS,  122CM X 84CM

THE ROSE, 2025 - OIL ON CANVAS,  122CM X 84CM

THE MAMA, 2025
OIL ON CANVAS,  122CM X 91CM

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