My art practice explores the complexities of human experience, particularly the interplay between beauty and suffering. I am interested in how resilience can exist alongside trauma, pain, and injustice, and how these experiences shape both the body and the self. Rather than offering resolution or escape, my work lingers in emotional intensity, inviting viewers to confront vulnerability, endurance, and the full spectrum of human feeling.

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At the core of my practice is an ongoing exploration of self-identity, introspection, and the narratives we construct to survive. My work is informed by lived experiences of suppression and self-concealment, particularly in relation to my identity as a sapphic woman. Through recurring imagery of florals, organic growth, human anatomy, and the female form, I examine desire, protection, exposure, and the tension between softness and rupture.

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Working across painting, sculpture, and ceramics, I translate emotional states into physical form. In my paintings, I employ a realistic style to depict bruises, wounds, and altered flesh in saturated colour, often disrupted by geometric patterns and dark undertones. These visual fractures reference trauma, memory, and the mourning of past selves. These same tensions carry into my recent sculptural work, where hand-built ceramic forms reference organs, bones, and metamorphic symbols such as butterflies. Layered glazes crack, sag, pool, and ooze, allowing the material to behave unpredictably and echo bodily fragility and emotional overflow.

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Alongside this work, my pottery practice through SunDay Ceramics embraces themes of growth, care, and renewal. Functional objects adorned with caterpillars, flowers, and woodland imagery offer a tactile counterbalance to my more confrontational work, reflecting nature’s quiet resilience and capacity for transformation, much like a seed breaking through the soil.

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Beyond my studio practice, I am committed to the transformative power of public art. Most recently, I created a large-scale interior mural for Robin Hood Association’s Children and Youth Community Centre, reflecting the organization’s 63-year history of supporting people with developmental disabilities. Across all facets of my practice, my goal is to use art as a catalyst for exploration and healing, empowering individuals to discover their identities, cultivate a sense of belonging, and engage in meaningful conversation.