About Me

I am a UK-based painter working primarily in figurative oil painting. My work examines physical and psychological barriers in everyday life — windows, walls, entrances — and the ways these structures shape what can and cannot be seen. Drawing from found imagery and investigative research, I construct scenes that suggest observation, distance, and quiet intrusion, inviting the viewer into moments that feel both ordinary and subtly unsettled.

Practice

My paintings focus on ordinary environments and fleeting moments rather than spectacle. Physical barriers recur throughout the work, not only as architectural features but as devices that control visibility and access. Figures are often shown from behind or at a remove, unaware of being watched. This places the viewer in a voyeuristic position — observing something private, partial, and just out of reach.

By slowing attention and resisting overt drama, the work gives weight to unnoticed moments and everyday rituals. Scenes are composed to suggest a before, an after, and a suspended present, where meaning is implied rather than resolved.

Process

My process is investigative. I draw from books, online archives, and ambiguous found photographs, assembling visual material through a process of searching, selection, and elimination. Search terms such as barrier, pursuit, and evade guide this research, shaping the direction of each composition.

More recently, I have begun incorporating thermographic imagery. Beyond its abstract, painterly potential, thermography is closely tied to surveillance and detection. By recording heat rather than light, thermograms speak directly to my ongoing concerns with visibility, pursuit, and what remains unseen.

Construction

Each painting is carefully constructed, borrowing from the visual language of film stills. Like a single frame extracted from a larger narrative, the images are rehearsed and selective — revealing certain details while deliberately withholding others.

This balance between clarity and ambiguity creates tension, allowing the familiar to become quietly unsettling or subtly surreal. Humour often emerges within this tension, softening the unease and complicating the emotional register of the work.

Viewing

The work invites the viewer to become both bystander and key witness. Meaning unfolds slowly through distance, suggestion, and sustained looking. What is visible is never complete, and what is concealed remains active, shaping how each image is read and experienced.