I am a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, digital collage, and sculpture, with a practice influenced by the Op Art movement. My work explores how memory becomes material and how material is transformed through artistic processes. The relationship between personal memory, collective memory expressed through archetypes, and historical memory rooted in archaeology and maritime mythology lies at the heart of my studio practice. These ideas are expressed through an examination of the tension between surfaces and outward appearances and the concealed layers beneath them.

 

My practice combines industrial processes and traditional hand techniques, including laser cutting of aluminium panels, digital or electrostatic printing on aluminium, plate rolling, painting, and hand-bending. My works are characterised by layered surfaces and processes of revelation and concealment, exposing the tension between outward appearance and an inner world containing memories and secrets.

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In recent years, I have been developing two central bodies of work:

​Reflections and Kelp Forest Trove

 

Reflections consists of sculptural objects inspired by Op Art. Created through industrial processes and incorporating metal, Plexiglas, and mirrors, the works undergo manual cutting and hand-bending, leaving traces of the body and emotion within the material. The objects respond to light and their surrounding space, producing reflections, optical illusions, and visual disorientation. Through these effects, the works examine the transition between an immediate sensory experience and its conscious interpretation.

 

Some works in the series incorporate imagery derived from ecclesiastical stained-glass windows, recontextualising it to emphasise the contrast between the magnificent façade of the church and what may be concealed behind it.

 

In Kelp Forest Trove, I continue to explore the tension between visible surfaces and hidden layers. The imagined underwater landscape becomes a mysterious space of traces, secrets, and remnants. I work with liquid acrylic and patina on printed metal surfaces, using digital collage as the foundational layer. By exposing the material to patina, seawater, and processes of corrosion, I examine how the image transforms over time. The resulting forms evoke objects forgotten in the depths and rediscovered many years later.

 

My work seeks to expand the boundaries of vision and perception. It invites the viewer to move beyond an initial glance and enter a deeper process of observation, interpretation, and understanding.