I grew up in a family of closeted artists, where art became an inherited language. In early adulthood, I began using that language to examine experience through image, material, colour and form. Working across media and collaborating with others expanded my understanding of art as both a personal practice and a shared process.

 

At the same time, collaboration brought a deeper awareness of the complexities of connection. As relationships became more difficult to navigate, I began questioning how intimacy, trust and dependence shape the ways we relate to one another. These tensions gradually led me back toward painting, which offered a more solitary space in which to examine them on my own terms. It became a place for ideas that resisted language and experiences that could not be resolved through conversation.

 

I continue to work across mediums, but the physical act of making remains central to my practice. My work can be confronting, strange, heavy or unsettling. Through these qualities, I explore the tensions between disturbance and peace, isolation and connection, vulnerability and control.

 

In this way, my practice connects my family history, my experience of collaboration and my need for individual expression. Art allows me to process the world through making and to give visible form to what remains unresolved