I started painting to deepen my love of colour and its mesmerising number of combinations to explore. For me, colour can transcend emotion, thought and sense of tension. I take my time with each painting, building layers of acrylic paint and experimenting along the way. I'm interested in the relationship between shapes and contrasting colours, and the slow process of arriving at the right composition. Painting, for me, is a constant shift between playing, failing, fixing, refining and learning to let go.

Pink is the colour I return to. It's often the one that divides an audience, but to me it is deeply feminine, charged with warmth, intimacy and strength, especially when paired with cool tones, white and black.

I find myself abstracting from the natural world almost subconsciously. Even at a microscopic level, I've always found an abundance of interesting shapes and patterns. I like to use bold strokes to catch movement and depth, the transient moment before a sky or a landscape becomes different again.