For me, a practice of painting is a practice of caring. I treat this process of ‘deep caring’ as an act of rebellion, an act of revolution. It pushes back against apathy and focuses on the emotional pleasures of pictorial detail. In my work I select source material from painting’s history. To settle in the present, I need to trace the past. With those pieces of the world in hand I can think alongside the generations of artists that have come before me and simultaneously trace the forms of people living today. This is a process of examining a life "lived along lines… not at points, not in spheres." (Donna Haraway). I am tracing backwards and forwards across history through paint to discover age old vulnerabilities and the tragedy and euphoria hidden in all our lives. Through mark-making and painterly pulse I hope you as a viewer feel the labour in my work transfer its energy to you; the labour of focus and love, and the commodity of concentration – all simultaneously buried inside these paintings, awaiting transmission through looking and sensing. I have had this transmitted to me as I dash around history, and it has steadied and held me. My work will tell you in paint about atoms and light, about stillness and hum and the ongoing labour of being human.

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EVERY TIME I CLOSE MY EYES, 2021  

oil on canvas  

1000 x 1500 mm

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HAVEN ONE, 2021  

oil on board  

400 x 300 mm

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YOU KNOW, I ALMOST BELIEVED HIM, 2021  

oil on board  

2400 x 1000 mm

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LOVERS, 2021  

oil on board  

700 x 600 mm

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ALL THE MEN I HAVE LOVED WERE ONCE BOYS. ASTONISHING, 2021  

oil on canvas  

1200 x 2400 mm

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