I was born and raised in rural Yorkshire, where growing up in a small village in the 1970s gave me a strong awareness of place and its quiet tensions. After many years living and working as an architect in London, my art practice re-emerged following an unexpected return to my childhood home during the 2020 lockdown.

I now work full-time as an artist and am largely self-taught. While my architectural background continues to inform my work — particularly in its attention to space, light, and proportion — painting has become a way for me to explore how environments are lived and felt rather than formally designed.

My practice focuses on the relationship between place, memory, and emotional experience. I’m interested in familiar environments and how they shift under different conditions, especially when atmosphere and memory begin to outweigh literal description. Painting and drawing are forms of reflection as much as representation, and my work often aims to evoke a sense of presence rather than describe a specific location.

I’m particularly drawn to in-between spaces — places that feel unresolved or on edge — where habitation meets landscape, or where visibility gives way to darkness. These threshold moments often hold a quiet emotional charge.

Working primarily in acrylic ink and watercolour, my paintings develop from sketches and photographs and are built through carefully constructed compositions. I’ve been exhibiting and selling my work since 2022.