I am a British contemporary artist whose work centres on the emotional and psychological spaces that lie beneath everyday experience. Drawing on myth, folklore, landscape and the collective imagination, I use painting as a way to navigate the tensions between the visible world and the inner life. My practice is shaped by more than twenty-five years of working with artists, exhibiting internationally, and continually returning to the studio to test what painting can still say about being human.

Working primarily in oil, charcoal and mixed media, I create images that sit somewhere between the familiar and the uncanny. Figures, fragments and atmospheric landscapes appear and disperse, held together by a palette that shifts between dense shadow, muted tones and moments of luminosity. I’m interested in the point where intuition meets intention: the place where a painting starts to lead its own path, and where narrative becomes suggestive rather than fixed.

Recurring motifs – thresholds, bodies in transition, symbols drawn from nature – offer a framework for thinking about memory, longing and the parts of ourselves we often keep hidden. Rather than presenting a single meaning, I want each work to invite viewers into a conversation with their own emotional landscape. My aim is to create paintings that feel immediate and sensory, but also spacious enough to encourage reflection and uncertainty.

Alongside my studio practice, I work as a mentor and educator, supporting artists to develop confidence, clarity and sustainable creative habits. This has deepened my interest in how artists articulate their inner processes and how imagery, language and instinct interact. These conversations feed directly back into my own work, sharpening my sense of how painting can hold complexity without explanation.

I have exhibited in London, Hong Kong, Miami and New York, and have been selected for exhibitions including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. My work has been recognised as part of Creative Black Country’s “100 Masters,” and continues to be collected in the UK and internationally. Recently, my focus has widened to include digital spaces and collaborative projects that question how contemporary artists share, present and frame their work.

Ultimately, my practice is an ongoing exploration of the psychological terrain we all move through – the stories we inherit, the shadows we carry, and the moments of clarity that surface when we slow down enough to notice them. Painting remains the language I return to because it allows me to think, sense and imagine in ways that are both deeply personal and open to others. My intention is always to create work that resonates on an emotional level, offering viewers a space to pause, feel, and find their own meaning.