"Within my painting practice I examine the fragile structures we create to both conceal and reveal aspects of ourselves. I’m interested in façades - what they hide, what they hold, and what slips through their surface. I explore the ways in which painting functions as a façade, a surface that simultaneously discloses and deflects. Through mark-making, colour, composition, and scale, the work offers momentary access to the personal (memory, identity, storytelling) only to obscure them again under dense layers of abstraction. 

 

My early studies in biology sharpened my attention to detail, hidden structures and complex systems, while the spectacle of celebration has influenced how I approach painting as an overstimulating spatial experience. Inspired by weddings, religious spaces, amusement parks, and places of gathering, my works often extend onto walls and engage with the architecture, creating environments that embrace excess, movement, and visual abundance. My multi-panelled paintings are composed of surfaces that shift, swap, and grow - like puzzle pieces that never fully click into place. They encourage playfulness and imperfection, embracing the fluidity and complexity of lived experiences: the gaps, misalignments, and messiness of relationships between people, places and objects. 

 

This print extends my painting practice by translating my use of multiple surfaces into a layered work on paper. Constructed from cut paper elements and hand-drawn marks, it is inspired by a cluster of dry, tangled tree roots I encountered during a residency in Los Angeles. Each section of the print functions as its own visual space while remaining connected to the others, reflecting how my paintings often grow through accumulation and iteration rather than a single continuous “perfect” surface. Lines move across seams and edges, tying the composition together and highlighting connection, layering, and the unseen structures that hold everything in place.

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Layering continues to fascinate me, both as a material process and a metaphor for how identity and experience accumulate over time. I’m drawn to biological cross-sections, the structures of suburban households, even a sliced cake: anything that reveals what’s hidden beneath the surface. In my life, generational layers - formed by past sacrifices, failures, and successes - shape who I am. In my work, thick layers of paint, gestural brushstrokes, and shifting surfaces reflect the unfolding of identity and experience. Layering becomes a way to represent time, growth, contradiction, and transformation. It’s a visual language that insists the surface is never the whole story."