My work explores the tensions and desires that shape human relationships, both fulfilled and unfulfilled. Drawing from personal experiences as well as the social and political contexts around me, I create images that explore identity, vulnerability, desire, and human connection. I want the viewer to recognise fragments of their own experiences within the emotions and narratives contained in each work.

Portraiture is central to my practice. I begin with the portrait of an individual and use it as a starting point to explore something beyond their physical appearance. I am interested in revealing aspects of a person that may not be immediately visible, while also questioning how much of another person can ever truly be known.

Many of my portraits are constructed through the combination and transformation of multiple photographic references. By layering, fragmenting, distorting, and reassembling these images, I create figures that move between representation, surrealism, and abstraction. The resulting image may remain recognisable as a person while becoming increasingly difficult to fully understand. This creates a tension between recognition and uncertainty, between what the portrait reveals and what it conceals.

Within these constructed portraits, the face and body become sites where identity, vulnerability, desire, and resistance are negotiated. The fragmentation of the image allows different aspects of the individual to coexist, suggesting experiences, emotions, and relationships that cannot necessarily be represented through a conventional portrait.

I often use a restrained, predominantly monochromatic palette to create atmosphere and emotional depth. Through intuitive gestures, distortion, fragmentation, and deliberate compositional decisions, I create figures that retain a strong figurative presence while existing within an ambiguous space between reality and imagination.

Through this approach, I seek to challenge conventional ideas of portraiture and explore the shifting boundaries between self and other, representation and abstraction, visibility and concealment. Each painting becomes both a portrait of an individual and an attempt to reveal something of the person that exists beneath or beyond their visible appearance.