My work explores wider human themes such as grief, loss, memory, transformation, and the search for meaning within a materialist worldview. I am interested in the tension where beauty and sadness coexist, and where memory, imagination, and reality overlap—spaces where certainty begins to break down.
I work primarily in drawing, using pencil, charcoal, pastel, PanPastel, and coloured pencil, sometimes in combination. Earlier work was drawn largely from observation, often incorporating photographic elements. More recently, I construct photographic montages from images I have taken or found, which then form the basis for drawings. These processes allow me to create imagined spaces that feel psychologically authentic.
My imagery often draws on childhood symbolism—fairy tales, nursery rhymes, toys, animals, and natural forms—which act as metaphors for emotional states, relationships, and interior experience. I am interested in how familiar objects carry narrative and symbolic meaning, and how they can be reconfigured to explore ambiguity and transformation.
Alongside drawing, I sometimes write poetry that engages with similar themes. Both practices attempt to give form to complex human experience. My work exists in the space between belief and doubt, reflecting a tension that holds open the possibility that meaning and emotional truth may endure beyond loss.