About my work.

I am a London-based artist whose practice is rooted in process, balancing an intuitive approach with a strong sense of structure and order. An openness to chance allows each work to develop its own internal logic and direction.

Paintings are experienced differently in the physical world from the way they are encountered through the screens that increasingly mediate our experience of images. Their surface, scale and material presence register the movement of the hand, making gesture tangible in ways that digital reproduction cannot convey.

My two approaches to painting explore the relationship between raw gesture and controlled edges, but in different ways. In my more recent, often larger works, gesture takes centre stage, with hard-edged elements defining and accentuating cursive brushstrokes as they traverse the surface. These paintings might be read as a celebration of – or perhaps a lament for – handwriting: the complex, embodied act of human expression increasingly threatened with extinction by digital communication. There is also a playful sense of defiance here, as paint plays the computerised world at its own game, transforming physical brushstrokes into silky swipes that appear almost printed.

The other continuing body of work is built around improvised grid structures, which provide a framework for exploring painterly gesture and colour relationships. Horizontal and vertical lines are employed in rescaled, often interrupted formats, suggesting disorderly maps, fragments of place or states of mind. Colour and titles emerge instinctively, often drawing on specific locations and memories. Short passages of writing sometimes accompany these works, not as exercises in nostalgia, but as a means of entering each painting – perhaps like a nonlinear diary entry, recording an experience without necessarily explaining it.

I have exhibited multiple times at The Royal Academy Summer Show (including 2026) and Flowers East, London. I have also exhibited at Hastings Contemporary and The New Art Gallery Walsall among other UK and overseas galleries. My work is in multiple private collections in the USA, Europe and the UK, and in public collections including Whitechapel Gallery Archives, The Groucho Club collection and the Fitzwilliam Museum Archive, Cambridge.

I teach abstract painting at The Essential School of Painting, an independent art school based in London.

My work can be found on Rise Art and SOTA Marketplace.

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