About Me
I am a contemporary artist working across painting and sculpture. My practice is rooted in a fascination with material, transformation and the impermanence of form.
I work intuitively, building my paintings and sculptures through processes of accumulation, layering, disruption and removal. I add, alter, scrape away and rebuild allowing each piece to develop through a conversation between intention and chance. I’m interested in what happens when something carefully constructed begins to shift, erode or reveal what lies beneath.
Moving between painting and sculpture allows me to explore the physical qualities of material different ways. Texture, weight, surface and gesture become ways of thinking about time, change and the traces we leave behind. I’m less interested in creating a fixed or perfect outcome than in allowing the process of making to remain visible.
At the heart of my practice is an acceptance of impermanence- the understanding that forms, structures and our relationship to them are continually changing. I want my work to invite the viewer to slow down, look closely and experience the tension between what is being held and what is coming apart.
For me, making is a process of discovery. I build, undo, respond and begin again-following the material and allowing something unexpected to emerge
I lived from age twelve to nineteen on a hobby farm, surrounded by old machinery, weathered buildings and the remnants of things that had once been useful. As a child, I was fascinated by rusted metal—the colour, texture and the evidence of time it held in its surfaces. I would wander around the barn collecting discarded tractor parts and corroded machinery, bringing them together to make sculptures of my own.
I didn’t know that I was making art. I simply loved the process of finding something overlooked and imagining what it could become.
School was a different experience. I struggled with academics and found it difficult to engage with learning that felt removed from the physical world around me. I was much more interested in making, experimenting and figuring things out with my hands. Looking back I realize that I wasn’t uninterested in learning, I just needed to learn differently. Materials were my language and making was how I made sense of the world.
That early fascination with discarded and weathered materials has stayed with me. The rusted metal of my childhood has evolved into a broader exploration of material, transformation. Impermanence and the traces left behind by time.
Today, whether I am working in sculpture or painting, I still approach the process with that same sense of curiosity. In many ways, I think that I am still that child in the barn-looking at a piece of rusted metal and wondering what it could become.
Where It Began
