I am a self-taught painter, and have been playing around with still-life, domestic and local travel scenes for the past few years. At first, I taught myself to paint in the style of a woodblock print, blocking out shapes to create an image, so a lot of my work is flat but I’m playing more and more with depth and distance as I go along, and learning to really look at a scene.
Inspiration for my still-life works comes from both food and the ritual of sharing meals, and I often ‘set the table’ to tell the story of a certain person, place or time. In terms of domestic or interior scenes, I’m often painting scenes that speak to everyday routines, like swimming via a scene of bathers drying, and forever looking at satisfying shapes of well-designed utilitarian objects like chairs and or a Bialetti, and patterns in light, shadows, nature, architecture and textiles. I’m drawn to the idea of hyper-local travel too; I read travel writing and apply it to a way of looking at my own neighbourhood.
I’ve have self-managed two exhibitions to date. I was a finalist in the 2020 Little Things Art Prize at Saint Cloche gallery, have had a mention in Galah magazine’s Art Scene segment (issue 3, 2021), and was listed in Inside Out magazine’s Affordable Art Guide (January 2024).
