I’m drawn to imagined places within already fictional worlds: the background paintings with landscapes of animated sitcoms, cinematic backdrops, and invented terrains that feel instantly familiar. These are landscapes twice removed from reality, yet quietly believable. We accept them without question, allowing them to shape emotion and narrative from the margins. My paintings operate in the same way. They are less a depiction than an environment - psychological spaces shaped by a hyper-stimulated media landscape, and orchestrated as scenes for escapism. 

Influenced by the lyrical colour of Howard Hodgkin, Brian Cook, and Nicolas Party, the compositional restraint of Algernon Newton, and the idealised terrains of Family Guy and The Simpsons, I use bold colours and simplified forms. There is an intentional tension: surfaces that appear light or playful, yet carry a quiet emotional weight beneath. Think Hockney reimagined by Stewie Griffin: colourful, simplified, yet an emotional escape. These works offer a layered reading - superficially light, but grounded in quiet seriousness.

My process is intuitive but measured. I build each painting through layering, erasure, and adjustment, often introducing fluorescent bases beneath oil to push pigments and certain elements forward. Flatness and depth coexist, allowing colour to act not just visually, but emotionally.

These works sit between the artificial and the internal. They offer a superficially light reading but create psychological environments that invite curiosity, innocence, otherness, and reflection.

SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS

• Form Gallery, Nailsworth, England – from September 2021
• Sherston Arts Festival, Sherston, England – November 2021
• The Pound Arts Open Exhibition, Corsham, England – December 2021
• John Bowen Gallery, Malmesbury – March/April 2022
• Caerbladen Gallery, Malmesbury – August 2022
• Spencer Gallery, Tetbury – September 2022
• Caerbladen Gallery, Malmesbury – March 2023