Growing up I would sketch incessantly. Usually all over my workbooks. I was inspired by artists like Wassily Kandinsky who used colour in a way that I profoundly connected with, sometimes in a linear fashion and sometimes as though sketching the feeling of something.

I still sketch now, in my little black book when I’m travelling, but the main body of my work is in acrylic on canvas with the occasional foray into digital art. I work mostly with Golden paints because their creamy texture and richness of pigments connect with the way I often paint using my fingers and my need for vibrancy of colour that’s so important in creating impact. 

  

I can be inspired by something initially, like the shutters of a french village or, more often the emotion of day or an event, and then I get swept along in the energy of the process. This leads to the abstract nature of my work. Sometimes I’ll let in the ghost of something representational because I feel it in that moment, but I’m mostly drawn to how it feels to stand in a place of not knowing and seeing where that leads.