Artist Biography

Nature is the language through which I explore the human psyche.

For more than thirty years, my artistic practice has been an ongoing exploration of the unseen landscapes within us. Through abstraction and an evolving relationship with materials, I explore the spaces between the physical and psychological, the visible and unseen, darkness and light, control and surrender, isolation and connection, resilience and transformation.

My work begins with a feeling rather than an image. I don't begin knowing what a painting will become. The feeling leads me towards the material, and the material becomes part of the conversation. Through this process, something begins to emerge that I often only understand in hindsight.

Nature provides the language and metaphors through which these intangible experiences become visible. Mountains can become struggle, water can become surrender, fire can become renewal, and shifting horizons can become thresholds between who we are and who we are becoming.

Experimentation has always been central to my practice. From concrete, pumice, stone and organic materials, to resin, found materials, gouache, acrylic, ink and watercolour, I am continually interested in what happens when materials are taken beyond their conventional purpose. I work through curiosity, testing, observing and responding. Once a technique is understood, it often becomes the beginning of another question rather than an end point.

My process is therefore one of collaboration rather than complete control. Water, pigment, gravity, texture, chemical reactions and chance all participate in the making. I create the conditions, then allow the materials to respond. The unexpected is not a mistake to be corrected, but often where the work begins to reveal something of its own.

I don’t paint what I know.
I paint what I am coming to know.

The paintings often reveal their meaning long before I do. Through living, reflecting and healing, I gradually recognise what they were quietly showing me. In this way, painting has become both a witness to my inner life and a way of understanding it.

My artistic journey is inseparable from my spiritual and psychological journey. A lifelong questioning of what lies beneath the surface of experience has led me to explore consciousness, spirituality, dreams, healing and the relationship between the visible world and the unseen. These explorations are not separate subjects within my practice; they are part of the same ongoing inquiry.

I am particularly interested in the vastness of what we cannot fully know — both within ourselves and beyond us. The human psyche feels to me like an inner universe: layered, mysterious, constantly changing and impossible to completely map. My paintings exist somewhere between these two infinities — the landscape within and the landscape beyond.

Guided by the philosophy Heal Yourself, Heal the World, I see art as an ongoing process of discovery and transformation. I don't seek to provide fixed answers or narratives. Instead, I hope to create spaces where something can be felt, recognised or questioned. If a painting allows someone to encounter a part of themselves they had forgotten, hidden, or never fully understood, then the conversation has begun.