About my work.

I am a London-based artist whose practice is rooted in a process-led approach, where intuition and accident are balanced by a keen sense of structure and order. The interplay between control and gestural freedom is central, inviting the viewer to engage with both the formal and intuitive qualities within the work.

The grid - or intersecting horizontal and vertical lines - has provided a structure within which to explore painterly gesture and colour relationships. The use of colour in my grid paintings has sometimes been reflective of memory, place, or state of mind, comparable to non-linear visual diary entries.

More recent work has moved away from the vertical and horizontal, bringing gesture to the fore to make it the focus and story. The hard edged element is still present but employed to define gesture’s unruly movement - or dance - across a surface, weighing negative against positive space.

I never plan a painting in advance, I might have an idea of colour palette or the particular process with which to make a work, but the pleasure for me is in the process and the not knowing how a painting will emerge or find itself.