ARTIST STATEMENT

My practice explores the relationship between body, material, and environment through process-led mixed media works including painting, sculpture, and installation. I am interested in how we exist within an interconnected system, where boundaries between body, surface, space, and time remain fluid and continually changing.

The starting point of my work is often outside the studio, through walking, observing, and engaging with natural and urban environments. I am drawn to textures, patterns, reflections, and distorted forms - tree bark, moss, shadows, moving water and eroded surfaces - which reveal processes of growth, decay, and transformation. These encounters inform both my choice of materials and my approach to making.

My process is physical and embodied. I often work on the floor, using my whole body to create marks through movement, pressure, and repetition. Actions such as tracing, walking, layering, and erasure become ways of recording presence and interaction. Through this approach, drawing and painting shift away from representation towards an intuitive, experiential practice.

Materials play an important role in my work. Alongside traditional media such as oil paint and pigments, I use wood, branches, clay, sand, crushed leaves, and repurposed elements, allowing their inherent properties to influence the outcome. Surfaces are formed through processes of accumulation and erosion, often remaining fragile, cracking, unstable, and subject to change. I am particularly interested in materials that retain traces of time and environment, where transformation continues beyond the moment of making.

In recent works, I have expanded beyond the flat surface to develop sculptural and installation-based pieces that extend into space. Fabrics, wooden structures, and organic elements interact with light, shadow, and surrounding architecture, creating relationships between individual works. Rather than existing as isolated objects, these elements function as part of a wider system, responding to and shaping one another.

Across my practice, I explore cycles of instability, regeneration, and connection. The work reflects an ongoing negotiation between control and unpredictability, where meaning emerges through interaction - between body and material, artwork and environment, and presence and change.