About Me.

I am an artist and I am an autist and I am a collector and I am nervous.

 

My work is like a toybox. Within my acrylic and gouache paintings I build magical, imagined worlds featuring teddies, trinkets and sentimental objects, seeking the authentic creativity and play that I felt as a child. If you join me at my toybox, you can traverse across a land made of pillows, climb up a giant monstera tree, meet my mini glow in the dark friends, try on jumpers with Sil the sloth, have a cup of nightlight tea, or hear the soft ticking of Mr.Fishclock. When I build a still-life, I return to a childlike state of play which is integral to my work, creating stories for my sentimental objects. I work slightly obsessively, playing with the same objects repeatedly, creating a web of stories and lore. I am unable to let the objects that have importance to me sit in the toybox unappreciated.

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I use saturated, complex colour palettes with a lack of grey and brown, as an almost ridiculous representation of joy. While I have created many series of work, I always return to themes of authenticity and absurdity, responding to my experiences growing up on the spectrum. I am in control of the scenes I build, creating comfortable, accepting worlds for myself, a portal of escapism to step into.Large-scale still life is my current obsession, working larger with each painting, but filling the surface of the board with the same level of detail. A sort of maze, where more details pop out the longer you look.

 

I haven’t always been obsessed with still life. Previously, I have experimented with a range of materials and subject matter.  For example: “Dollhome”, an interdisciplinary dollhouse hinging on play, “Through a Lens”, a long-term project using the fisheye lens to create exaggerated portraits, “Unstaged”, a series of paintings worked from photographs of my loved ones taken without their knowledge and “Shelved”, multiple works on cardboard including miniature versions of myself.