I am a portrait painter fascinated by the odd, expressive moments that reveal who we really are. My practice explores identity through humour, candid gestures, and a quiet kind of absurdity. I’m drawn to the moments in between regular life; the moments when people forget themselves, when a pose becomes too big or too strange, or when a gesture says more than a face.

Working primarily in oil paint, I create closely cropped, expressive portraits based on spontaneous, candid photographs of friends and family. I use raw linen backgrounds, gestural brushwork, and props like crates or pool toys to hint at the playful, performative nature of daily life. 

I’m inspired by artists such as Sarah Ball and Caroline Walker, whose paintings informed both the cut-out style of my portraiture and the painterly techniques in my final body of work. My practice is also influenced by the awkward, satirical lens of Erwin Wurm and Martin Parr. My degree show series, ‘Soft Animals’, takes its name from a line in Mary Oliver’s poem ‘Wild Geese’, which reminds us to let ourselves be instinctive, gentle, and free.
At its heart, my work is about recognising ourselves in others; not as polished or composed, but strange, funny, and unapologetically human.