Artist Statement 
 

My practice is an exploration of the things I consider to be beautiful in the outside world, shaped by my experiences of travel and different cultures, particularly time spent in Spain. I am drawn to the relationship between landscape and architecture, and how these elements inform and transform one another. Through observation, documentation, and reflection, I translate these environments into visual work that reimagines place as both image and object.

 

Working primarily with oil paint and ceramics, I create painterly surfaces of landscape scenes. Ceramics play a central role in this process, acting as both support and surface. Referencing traditions such as tiled façades and architectural decoration, the works echo the integration of art and environment found in public spaces. In this way, my practice considers how art can move beyond passive viewing and instead become embedded within daily life.

 

My practice begins with looking: walking, noticing, photographing. I often return to images stored on my camera roll, revisiting moments that felt visually or emotionally significant. This act of re-looking becomes a way of understanding what draws me to certain places such as the intensity of colour, the structure of built environments, and the atmosphere created between them.

 

I am particularly interested in the stages of making; underpainting, layering, and surface development, and how any of these moments can exist as a resolved outcome. This approach challenges traditional ideas of completion and allows the process itself to remain visible within the final work.

 

Public art has been a significant influence on my work. I am interested in creating pieces that can exist outside of the gallery, rejecting the limitations of the white cube in favour of more accessible, everyday encounters. By placing work back into environments, through murals, tiles, or outdoor installations, I aim to disrupt the ordinary and invite moments of pause within familiar spaces. I am particularly interested in the idea of displacement: taking visual elements inspired by Spanish landscapes and re-situating them within new contexts, allowing them to exist simultaneously as memory, translation, and object.

 

My work is rooted in observance and is an ongoing attempt to understand why certain places, colours, and structures resonate with me. By transforming these observations into physical forms, I seek to create work that is not only reflective of my experiences but also accessible to others, offering moments of beauty within the everyday.