Artist Statement
My work is a practice of presence, being, and dialogue. I paint and draw primarily from life, allowing each image to emerge through direct encounter rather than a curated approach. I begin without a fixed composition, letting the relationship between body, light, and attention shape the work as it unfolds.
As an autistic artist with synaesthetic perception, I experience colour, sound, and form as interconnected. Colour carries pressure and emotion, rhythm informs structure, and form emerges through layered sensation. Painting becomes a way of translating this perceptual world into something visible — not as representation, but as resonance.
Each session is immediate and unrepeatable. Every mark responds to the last, forming an immediate dialectic between myself, the model, and the present moment. In this practice, the model is not simply a subject, but a collaborator in a nonlinear process. The work develops through shared experience: a gesture, a pause, a shift in light or expression — the truth of a brushstroke.
Realism has proven insufficient when it comes to capturing a fleeting state of being — the moment in which presence becomes visible. These works attempt to hold that moment, to give form to something that would otherwise pass unnoticed, including the tension between picture and reality itself. The race against time has become a tool for extracting essence and truth, sometimes beyond and often against my own aesthetic preferences. This dialectic happens at the edge of ego, reality and the artwork that wishes to come into being.
At its core, my practice is concerned with the fragility of human presence, or absence. Each piece stands as a singular, unrepeatable record of an encounter — a way of resisting disappearance, and of allowing truth to carry weight again.