Artist statement

I am a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, moving image and spatial practice. My work explores how time is experienced rather than measured, focusing on presence, perception and the tension between lived experience and society’s impulse to structure and optimise time.

Painting sits at the centre of my practice and functions as a visual and emotional register. Working primarily with acrylic and oil stick, I combine fast, instinctive gestures with slower, more deliberate mark-making. Each line becomes a trace of movement and attention, recording moments of flow, hesitation and duration.

My work draws from the fleeting currents of everyday life — shifting light, fragments of memory, landscape and atmosphere. A five-month research period in Lapland in ‘25-26 explored how extreme seasonal rhythms and prolonged darkness alter the body’s perception of time, an experience that continues to inform my work.

Through large-scale expressive compositions I aim to create open perceptual fields rather than fixed narratives. Rooted in the physicality of gesture, the work explores the relationship between the tangible and the abstract, inviting viewers to pause, linger and reflect on their own embodied experience of time.