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. These are the spaces where certainty rooted in materialism breaks down.
I work primarily in drawing, using pencil, charcoal, pastel, PanPastel, and coloured pencil, sometimes in combination. Earlier work was mainly drawn from direct observation, often with photographic elements added. More recently, I create photographic montages from images I have taken or found, which form the basis for drawings. My aim is 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 experiences. I am interested in how familiar objects carry narrative and symbolic meaning, exploring ambiguity, lived experience, and symbolic transformation.
Alongside drawing, I sometimes write poetry that explores similar themes. Both practices transform complex human experience into visual and emotional form. My work dwells in the space between belief and doubt, reflecting a cognitive dissonance that embraces the bittersweet possibility that meaning and emotional truth may endure beyond loss.