I approach painting as a space for openness and discovery. Each piece is based on instinct, material and response rather than predetermined compositions or reference images. Instead, I work intuitively, responding to the paint in the moment. Colour choices happen just before I begin, driven by feeling rather than theory, and the process unfold from there. The material qualities of paint, its opacity, fluidity, and the way it moves across the surface, play a key role in how I explore emotion, focus and unconsciousness.
Each painting begins with a blended, solid colour background that creates a calm, controlled foundation. This stage is deliberate, offering a quiet space for the marks that follow. These backgrounds are stable and grounded, setting up a contrast with what happens next. From there, I shift into a more instinctive way of working, making expressive brushstrokes in direct response to the surface. These marks are applied without planning, allowing for a more intuitive and present engagement with the material.
The constant interplay between the stillness of the background and the energy of the layered marks is central to how I work. That contrast between spontaneity allows the surface to become active and unpredictable. Through layering, removal, and reworking, the surface begins to hold a visible history some parts revealed, others concealed for stop the process itself becomes a weight of thinking and feeling through making, where each decision is shaped by presence, emotion, and the unconscious.
Each piece is both a pause and a progression, held in the present but always open to change.
