The Work

IInformed by the gardens of my childhood in England, my work searches for a personal paradise, a refuge from busy city life. The garden, a place where landscape meets man-made structure is an archetypal space where humanity has sought paradise since our beginnings. Recent works explore the tension between wildness and cultivation, asking whether nature can be tamed without creating gardens. A wish for a sense of belonging in wild places.

The painting process begins with washes of intuitive colours. Like a gardener shaping the land, I shape a rich palette of saturated jewel tones until scenes and landscapes emerge. My paintings surprise the viewer with unusual textures, colour combinations and compositions that are both familiar and exotic.

These paintings are my prayer for the future, a hopeful call for our relationship with nature and finding belonging within the spaces we create.