THE WORK

My work reflects a dialogue between the intuitive qualities of hand-crafted art and the compositional possibilities of digital refinement. Beginning with traditional materials - watercolour, ink, and spontaneous mark making, I create a body of source material rooted in gesture and colour. These elements are then developed digitally, using layering and manipulation to explore abstraction through my own composite visual language.

THE STORY

I found myself on a hill, an oak tree behind me and a beautiful view of the English countryside spreading out beneath. I took a slow deep breath and let the words out. Words that had been deeply buried, words that should never have been said to me, that I should never have said to myself. They had been stuck in my chest for longer than I could remember, and they had kept me away from connection and intimacy for years.

I could see the words. Some floated in the air before me, giant and black, moving away slowly. Some were small and fast, buzzing around me before blinking out. The words were fragments that I couldn’t, or didn’t even try to read as they all meant the same thing - freedom from myself.

I created this place with the guidance of a hypnotherapy session and it remains the place I go back to when I sit down to work. It takes a certain kind of bravery for me to create something from nothing and offer it out to the world, and I’m grateful that I’ve had that experience - real or not, to help me.