My work consists of oil paintings, either on ornate, sculpted wood panels or canvas, that transform imagination into tangible form. A sculpted panel work begins as a drawing and evolves through an intricate process of cutting, filing, sculpting and painting wooden shapes in both oil and acrylic. These individual elements are assembled into layered compositions, finished with varnish, resin, and various embellishments to create richly textured work that occupy a space between painting, sculpture, and theatrical object. My canvas works likewise extend beyond the flat surface, often incorporating sculptural elements that project into the viewer’s space.

Rooted in themes of dream-like surrealism, my works serve as immersive dioramas - palpable artifacts from imagined, figurative worlds with illustrative narratives that feel both familiar and fantastical. More recently, playful masked characters have emerged within these worlds as a means of reconnecting with my childhood self. Often depicted in masks, these figures embody a sense of anxiety, estrangement, and fractured identity - reflecting the emotional disconnect I feel toward my past self, and the ways in which memory and selfhood can become obscured over time. They have an eerie ambiguity that creates an undercurrent of unease beneath the whimsy, inviting viewers into a space that is at once playful and slightly unsettling.

My recent practice has also involved a renewed engagement with traditional painting methods, drawing influence from 17th-century Dutch painting techniques and juxtaposing them with contemporary airbrushing and illustrative detailing. This fusion of historical and modern approaches allows me to construct increasingly immersive imagined worlds, where painted illusion extends beyond the picture plane and seeps into the surrounding environment through three-dimensional sculptural elements.

Influenced by Neo-Baroque opulence, Victorian aesthetics, the kitsch, pop-surrealism, fairytales, and the gothic botanical, my practice celebrates craftsmanship, materiality, and aesthetic excess. Embracing the philosophy of art for art’s sake, I view the beautiful and the fanciful as essential to the human experience - and as a vital tool for escapism and enrichment. Through a devotion to detail and a reverence for the decorative, I aim to create works that blur the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and theatre - objects that stand as both art and artifact, that are playful and alluring, existing in their own mythology as portals to beyond the everyday.