Everybody experiences life through their own view of the world and every individual lives in their own personal reality sometimes dominated by thought. In my practice I attempt to communicate exactly what my reality feels like sometimes as I try to make sense of what is going on inside my head. The content of my work portrays the relationship I have with myself, other people and the world around me. It is heavily concerned with the exploration of human experience. Running with themes of spirituality, connectedness and identity, my practice is a means for me to figure out exactly what is real in my life and what is part of the mind-made world fuelled by anxiety and fear.

For a while I have been trying to figure out if my work means anything at all. Is my practice just a means to an end? Am I truly expressing how I am feeling and what’s going on inside my head, or am I making it all up? In continuously asking myself these questions I realised that my work is, at its core, about self-doubt.

Every piece is an attempt to feel connected with myself and my inner essence, on a somewhat spiritual journey from being ‘stuck’ in my head, to translating this onto a canvas and being totally present and at one with the physicality of the paint. The process of each painting is guided by thoughts, as they shift and change, so does the painting. Through the use of emotive colours, reoccurring shapes and basic form, I have created a pictorial language of symbols that I feel simplify the contents of my mind.