Artist Statement

Updated February 2026

As an artist with a passion for storytelling, I am fascinated by the human experience and how it relates to my own unique perspective.

I'm autistic and I also have ADHD, and my art is steeped in my experience of my neurodivergence. To put it another way, my experience of the world is probably quite different from yours, and I use my artwork to try to bridge that gap and find the common ground between us. My work is rich in personal mythology, with symbols such as flowers and cats recurring throughout.

Through my work, I explore what it means to be human using my own 'outsider' status as a lens and point of comparison. I believe in the beauty of 'brokenness', and that to be human is to exist in states from the sublime to the ridiculous. In my world, 'otherness' is something to be celebrated - whether that otherness is neurological, gendered, queer, or simply the inevitable strangeness of being a person alive in a world not designed for you.

I am equally at home in the deeply personal and the quietly political. Some of my work turns inward - excavating emotion, identity, and the experience of a brain that works differently. Other work turns outward, examining the systems and structures we swim in so constantly that we've stopped noticing the water. What unites it all is a refusal to look away, and an insistence on finding something worth celebrating in what we find when we do look.

While my work may deal with traumatic events and emotions, I also incorporate elements of nonsense and silliness, recognising the profundity that can be found in humour and levity. Laughter is not a retreat from difficult things - it is often the sharpest way in. By combining beauty, metaphor, and playfulness, I strive to create art that provokes a sense of lightheartedness and joy even when - especially when - the subject matter demands otherwise.

Colour is everything to me, and I am obsessed with the physical properties of materials — how they behave, resist, surprise, and seduce. Paint remains central to my practice, and I'm endlessly drawn to its layered, tactile qualities; my painted works are sensuously textural, each layer informing the next, the finished surface begging to be touched. But increasingly my work spills beyond the canvas — into collage, mixed media, and three-dimensional forms that demand to occupy space rather than merely represent it.

Whatever the medium, I am always searching for new and interesting ways to make marks, build texture, and find the unexpected formal solution that makes a thing feel like what it is.