I am a figurative painter and a philosopher working in acrylic inks and oils on canvas, glass and metal. I aim to depict my local world in a way that resists simple naturalism. Beguiling the viewer with landscapes and portraits that resonate with emotional complexity and possibility. 

 

I paint from life, from photographs, and from films. Conversely, I film paintings being made, being photographed, and being thought about (see films on my collaborations and Press pages). I am endlessly fascinated by how much time there is in still paintings, and how this can be best understood in comparison to film. Working in both mediums, has helped me synthesise the research I do as Co-Director of the CPA based at King's College London, where I completed my PhD in Philosophy. The painting, animating, designing, and filming all combine to inform my philosophy papers which have been published in several academic philosophy journals. 

 

Some recent paintings have been shortlisted for the National Portrait Gallery Portrait Awards, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, and others have been finalists in Jackson's Art Prize, BTA Art Prize, British Contemporary Art Prize, and the Emerging Women in Art prize . I have also been long listed for The Royal Institute of Watercolour, and exhibited in ING Discerning Eye Mall Galleries (2023 and 2024), and the uber cool Unit 1 Gallery Workshop (do check it out if you are in London). I often exhibit 'The Swimmers' collection in cafes around Hampstead Heath where I started out in 2022.

 

If you’re planning to see the blockbuster movie We Live in Time with Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield, look out for my painting Brisk & Early Morning Swim on Hampstead Heath (2023).