The Self Advocating Artist

I am a self-taught contemporary artist working primarily with charcoal, pencil and ink on paper.

My work explores the relationship between the body, mind and internal experience through minimal and expressive figurative drawing. I am particularly interested in what happens to form under pressure — how the figure can hold, distort, fragment, withdraw, release and gradually re-form.

My drawings are often deliberately spare. Line, gesture and negative space carry as much weight as the figure itself, allowing ambiguity and imperfection to remain visible rather than resolving every image.

My current exhibition, Between Forms, brings together nine works exploring different states of physical and cognitive experience — from strain and disorientation to release, gathering and return. Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, the works leave space for viewers to recognise their own meanings within them.

My practice continues to evolve intuitively, with drawing functioning as a way of observing states that can be difficult to articulate in words.