Artist Statement

My painting explores the dynamic tension around the themes of resistance, disruption and adaptability in human relationships.

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Through abstract expressionist work, I investigate the push and pull between stability and disruption whilst translating fractured memory and trauma into physical form.

 

This response to pressure, uncertainty and the shifting structures that shape our lives triggers interest in the idea that stability is never permanent: the things we depend upon can alter, fracture or break down, requiring us to continually adjust.

Resistance is part of this process. It can hold something in place, but it can also create pressure, force change and lead to adaptation.

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This thinking is reflected in the physical process of painting. Through layers, repetition, interruption and erasure, areas of order sit alongside moments of instability. Forms and mark making create tension between cohesion and fragmentation.

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I am interested in psychological or societal systems that appear stable but are never completely fixed — structures that absorb pressure, shift, break down and reform. Boundaries can become permeable; repetition can become disruption.

 

Deeply informed by my own encounters of domestic violence when I was 19, my work draws on personal experience of the chaos around human relationships. I focus on translating intimate, emotional environments into raw, external visual systems.

 

I want the work to hold tensions rather than resolve them — between order and disorder, control and uncertainty, connection and separation, stability and movement.

For me, painting is a way of thinking through change - what we try to hold in place, what pushes back, what breaks through, and how we adapt when the systems around us can no longer remain the same.

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Working from my Dorset studio near England's south coast, my work continuously explores the boundaries of structural abstraction.

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