My practice centres on figurative hyperrealism in oil painting, using the human body as a vessel to explore emotion, memory, and the unspoken weight of lived experience. Each work begins with a feeling, thought, or fleeting moment, which anchors the composition and guides its narrative direction.

Although rooted in personal experience, my paintings are not intended to be autobiographical. Instead, I aim for them to hold a sense of universality—creating space for empathy and recognition between viewer and subject. I want each work to ask the viewer to pause, to sense rather than to be told, and to inhabit the emotional atmosphere it presents.

Recently, I have been exploring ideas of interconnection and tension, visually linking works through recurring palettes and motifs. This approach reflects how emotions and encounters remain entangled across time, shaping one another long after the moment has passed. My intention is not only to produce images, but to create spaces where vulnerability is held and quietly shared.

I graduated with a BA in Fine Art in 2025 and have continued to develop my practice through ongoing painting, exhibitions, sales, and workshop facilitation. I have been committed to becoming an artist from a young age, growing up in Staffordshire in a working-class environment where art became both a form of understanding and a means of expression. Living with dyslexia and dyspraxia, I often turned to visual language as a way of making sense of the world.

Alongside my practice, I have received the Appetite Choice Award (2024) and the Burslem School of Art Prize (2024), recognising my emerging contribution to contemporary painting.