Arundel Contemporary

My work explores the relationship between colour and form and the psychological responses they evoke. Rooted in the indistinct memories of early childhood, it draws on sun-bleached hues that recall both heat and the faded tones of early-1970s photography. These colours occupy emotional spaces, carrying sensations rather than narratives. My visual language has evolved from a desire to communicate a sense of place from my past—memories understood as felt experiences. Central to the work is an awareness of the interconnectedness of history, environment, relationships, and the flow of energy through all things.

Compositions emerge from remembered connections to artists, design movements, and places. Shapes are informed by a wide range of visual sources, from the modernist art of my childhood to forms associated with my time living in Africa, Asia, and North America as well as Yorkshire.

The ellipse has held a fascination for me since studying interior design as a teenager and drawing technical drawings by hand. It suggests an iconography that alludes to otherworldliness, the orbit of the planets around the sun or a portal to another dimension.

I have always loved line drawing and my painted linear works are a natural progression of my drawing practice. They are intuitive and performative, exploring themes of existence, evolution, and relationship. They are painted freehand in layers and there is an autonomy to the process, with each line reacting to the previous one. Through line, shape, colour, and scale, the works investigate feeling, sensation, and history—what is visible and what is not. Each line is shaped by the physical qualities of the paint, but also by my emotional and bodily state at the moment of painting it. This process produces a handwoven textile quality to the finished work.