I paint the living threads that run through all things — the branching patterns that shape our world, from veins and leaves to rivers and root systems — and the unseen connections that bind all of life together.
I work on wild surfaces using earthen pigments, raw colour sifted from rocks and clays gathered within my local landscape. In this way, my practice becomes an extension of place - each mark a continuation of the land itself, each brushstroke carrying the memory and material presence of where it came from. These ochres hold deep time within them, acting as both pigment and record, grounding the work in the slow unfolding of the Earth.
My relationship with wild colour and native materials invites an intimacy with the land that is both physical and reciprocal. It is an ongoing conversation, one that draws me deeper into my senses, into my body as part of the same living network I seek to depict. From gathering minerals to processing pigment and laying down paint, each stage is interconnected, each gesture part of a wider exchange.
Whether on animal hide or cotton and linen canvas, the paintings emerge as intricate networks built through the accumulation of lines. Layer by layer, forms develop organically, echoing the self-organising growth patterns found throughout nature. The work evolves as a living system, determining its own direction as it unfolds.
As new layers arise, they reveal depth, opening hidden spaces within the composition. Through this process of gradual emergence, the image is not imposed but discovered — a tracing of relationships rather than a fixed outcome. By working in this intuitive way, I release expectation and surrender to the act of making, allowing the threads to find their own path.
