Artist's Statement

Artist’s Statement

My work explores the relationship between landscape, memory, the body and lived experience. Working across abstraction and semi-abstract figuration, I am interested in how place functions not only as a physical environment but also as a repository of emotional and psychological experience.

My approach to landscape has been shaped by early work in a government land survey department, where I was involved in the practical processes of measuring and mapping terrain, alongside knowledge gained through Geography studies. These experiences fostered a lasting awareness of landscape as a structured system of form, depth and spatial relationships, and continue to inform how I perceive and interpret the environments I inhabit.

Walking and direct engagement with the environment are central to my practice. Time spent moving through forests, hills, mountains, coastal areas and urban spaces provides the sensory and spatial impressions that underpin many of my paintings. Rather than depicting specific locations, the works translate remembered sensations of place into gestural marks, layered colour and shifting spatial tensions.

Alongside landscape-based paintings, my recent figurative work explores the body as both a physical and psychological presence within space. Emerging through painterly process rather than predetermined composition, figures surface gradually through layering, disruption and reworking, often existing in states between abstraction and definition. These works consider how perception, memory and knowledge are experienced physically, and how the body remains connected to, rather than separate from, the natural world.

Across these different approaches, the work investigates how experience is registered visually: how landscapes and bodies are internalised, how memories persist, and how colour, movement and material can evoke the complex ways we inhabit and understand the world.