Inspiration | process | Materials
In my practice, I am curious about how different materials and elements can come together to create a cohesive piece. Rather than following a fixed painting style, I work intuitively, allowing freedom, spontaneity, and experimentation to guide the process.
Much of my inspiration comes from close observation of the natural world. I’m particularly drawn to patterns, tactile surfaces, tangled lines, shadows, movement, and the subtle details often overlooked in everyday life. Through my work, I explore ideas of interconnectedness, natural cycles and transformation, and the relationship between bodily senses and the surrounding environment.
I work with a diverse range of materials and techniques. I create shaped canvases and recycle paper, forming it into organic surfaces for painting. My approach combines gestural oil painting with frottage, fluid pigments, dyes, and the use of bleach to remove colour. I often incorporate found objects, sand, and embroidery, and frequently reuse materials already present in my studio.
Blending abstraction with references to landscape and occasional figurative elements, I aim to push my creative boundaries and continually expand the possibilities of the medium.
Solo Exhibitions
2023 - Going Back to My Roots, Thames-Side Studios, Viewing Room, London, UK
2020 - Cole’s Gallery, Leeds, UK
2019 - Private Spaces, Viewing Room, Thames-Side studios, London, UK
2017 - Lounge, Thames Side Studios, London, UK
2017 - Art Fix Gallery, Woolwich Arsenal, London, UK
2013 - ASC Gallery, Unit-3, London, UK
2013 - City Signs, London Regatta Centre, London, UK
2007 - Underground, degree show at Vilnius Academy of Arts, Kaunas Lithuania
Group Exhibitions
2025 - Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, London & touring exhibition (UK)
2025 - Materiality, No Place Art, The Handbag Factory, London (UK)
2025 - Meno Parkas Gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania)
2025 - How The Light Gets In, Marylebone Gallery, London (UK)
2025 - Woolwich Open, Thames-Side Studios Gallery (UK)
2025 - Beyond the Prize, Mall Galleries, London (UK)
2025 - Interim Show, City and Guilds of London Art School, London (UK)
2024 - Summer Exhibition, RA, London (UK)
2024 - Beep Painting Biennial: I won’t stay in a world without love, Elysium Gallery, Wales (UK)
2024 - Waverton Art Prize, The Gallery Room at Boisdale of Canary Wharf, London (UK)
2024 - Jackson’s Art Prize, Bankside Gallery, London (UK)
2024 - Works on Paper 6, Blue Shop Gallery, (online exhibition)
2024 - In Nature, Art For Charity Collective, (online exhibition)
2023 - Chaucer x Mall Galleries project, The Scalpel skyscraper, London (UK)
2023 - Self Portrait Prize | Ruth Borchard Collection, (online exhibition)
2023 - Woolwich Open, Thames Side Studios, London (UK)
2023 - Works on Paper 5, Blue Shop Cottage Gallery (online exhibition)
2022 – Oxmarket Open, Oxmarket Contemporary Gallery, Chichester (UK)
2022 - Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London (UK)
2022 - Art for Charity Collective fundraising exhibition/auction, Unit-1 Gallery | Workshop, London (UK)
2022 - Works on Paper 4, Blue Shop Cottage Gallery (online exhibition)
2022 - Art for Charity Collective (online auction)
2021 - Radical Residency VI, Unit-1 Gallery | Workshop, London (UK)
2021 - Spring Awakening, London Paint Club (online exhibition)
2021-20 - Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London (UK)
2020 - Housebound, Chapel Arts Studios (online exhibition)
2020 - A World Without End, no barking aRt gallery (online exhibition)
2019 - Saatchi Screen (‘Dinner Table’), Saatchi Gallery, London (UK)
2019 - New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London (UK)
2019 - Open Exhibition, Peterborough Museum Gallery, (UK)
2018 - Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Mall Galleries, London (UK)
2018 - Wells Art Contemporary, The Bishop’s Palace, Wells (UK)
2018 - Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries, London (UK)
2018 - Saatchi Screen (Sunday Morning in the Bed), Saatchi Gallery, London (UK)
2018 - Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London (UK)
2017 - Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Mall Galleries, London (UK)
2017 - Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries, London (UK)
2016 - New Artist Fair, Summer Exhibition, The Old Truman’s Brewery, London (UK)
2016 - Pavilion Open Art Exhibition, Penarth Pier Pavilion (UK)
2016 - Le Dame Gallery, Melia White House Hotel, London (UK)
2016 - Open Art Exhibition, City Gallery, Peterborough (UK)
2015 - Bells from the Deep, Hundred Year Gallery, London (UK)
2015 - Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London (UK)
2013 - On Site, ASC Gallery, Unit-3, London (UK)
2013 - Dazed and Refused, Arch Gallery, London (UK)
Education
2024 - 2026 City and Guilds of London Art School, MA of Fine Art
2007 Vilnius Academy of Arts, Kaunas Faculty of Arts, Lithuania - BA of Fine Art / Painting
Awards / Prizes
2024 - Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts (selected for exhibition)
2024 - Waverton art Prize, London (selected for exhibition)
2024 - Jackson’s Art Prize, London (selected for exhibition)
2023 & 2022 - Received Artists Surfaces Award (Instagram)
2020 - Winner of a solo exhibition at Cole’s Gallery, Leeds
2020 - Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts (selected for exhibition)
2017 - Winner of Winsor and Newton Young Artist Award, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Mall Galleries, London
Residencies
2021 - Radical Residency VI, Unit-1 Gallery / Workshop, London.
Auctions
2022 - The Auction Collective, Art for Ukraine
2022 - The Auction Collective, Help Ukraine: Without Reserve
2021 - Art for Charity Collective
2021 - Art on a Postcard
Publications
2024 - Waverton Art Prize Catalogue
2023 - Artists, Estila Magazine, December
2023 - Art Radar blog, New & Abstract
2021 - The Working Artist II magazine, 20 March 2021
2020 - House & Garden, online article “Our favourite work to buy now…” by Gabby Deeming, 19 June 2020
2019 - Aesthetica Magazine, issue 86, December/January 2019
2017 - On Art and Aesthetics, 26 January 2017
