Contemporary Artist living and working between Cornwall and London, United Kingdom.

Specialisms in painting, printmaking and sculpture.

My current body of work narrates neither a political nor a social commentary but rather reflects a space without human kind, one based on mythological tales. Adopting various thoughts and spaces from Norse, Greek, Hebrew and Egyptian mythologies, these paintings interrogate the same point in each foretelling which imagine the end of days; a place of nothingness where the dead retreat. Hyacinth is said to have been slain and from his blood flowers grew; it is this point of re-growth seeding in decay which echoes the undying hope of the human spirit in peril times. It is this placement of the spirit within the landscape and this spiritual abidance that motivates the work to challenge to the integrity of the human spirit and the crisis of human existence.

The paintings are infused with chemical patinas which respond to the space it inhibits, allowing its colours to transfigure in flux from the ordinary to sublime apocalyptic. These patinas fall between the industrial, chemical manmade and the organic, natural world. The painting has a life force of its own accord and each experience is a brief period in its fleeting time scale. In mind of this, the painting is both firmly fixed in the present tense and the future.

The work confronts temporality and thus tests its own relationship with its archival integrity; the work will decay, crumble and rebirth, serving as an existential reminder of the impermanence and uncertainty of our times. However, I look to examine and document the adversity of decay within art and the curatorial preciousness surrounding archival integrity through the idea of the landscape, myth and the memory palace. The work contains poetry on death and the sanctity of sin in homage to Keats. Requiems and Laments fill my work as a supplication to the unknown.