I am a Lancashire born/London based contemporary painter. My practice is rooted in the recording of place, time, and personal memory. I am drawn to the resonance of specific locations and the unseen histories embedded within them. Each work begins with a search for a meaningful site - a landscape or environment that holds emotional or historical significance. Taking a photograph marks the first act of recording, a fixed moment in time and space.

From this origin, my process becomes a gradual translation from place to photograph to painting, and finally toward abstraction. I am interested in how the eye and mind interpret visual information, how we locate meaning, subject, and emotional connection within a two dimensional visual field. Each stage moves further from representation, inviting ambiguity and suggestion.

Through the interplay of opposites, colour versus reality, abstraction versus representation, foreground against background, expressive gesture layered with fine detail, I explore the tension between abstraction and recognition. The resulting works sit between the seen and the remembered, the physical and the emotional, becoming reflections on how place and memory intertwine through the act of seeing and making.