ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a figurative painter creating tightly cropped, bold compositions that focus on fabric and the figure, finding inspiration in contemporary fashion and art history. My process involves working with a model to provide drawings and photographs as source material, while my paintings explore how gesture, colour and composition can capture the most vivacious qualities of the fabric as well as the attitude of the body.
In 2024 I moved from working in acrylics to oils and am finding new subtlety in this medium, exploring how fabric and skin can find equivalence in paint, deepening my knowledge of colour and technique to make this rendering more sophisticated and powerful. By painting on canvas and at a larger scale, I find the more expansive movements required to explain the contours of figure and cloth are leading in new and inspiring directions.