Statement

“As an artist In my hometown Southend on sea,walking was an outside pursuit”. 

Now in London I walk thru an architectural wonder, looking for its hidden language.

My work considers Dystopia within contemporary urban environments....the physicality and materiality, of experimental mark making.

Looking at residues, hidden languages within the environment - whether urban or nature...Travel as experience, the physicality of different spaces,

working in open spaces, thinking through drawing. 

My artistic practice delves into the intricate relationship between myself and the unique character of a place, primarily through immersive exploration of London's urban graffiti marks that reveal a hidden language .

As a conceptual artist working both in situ and in my studio, my process begins with extensive walks, meticulously documenting the city's overlooked surfaces, finding ancient walkways and disused travel routes which evokes a dystopian future, Through photography and sketching, I capture the ephemeral language of lines and markings found on walls, in tunnels, and along transit routes – a palimpsest of human presence.

By enacting urban explorations finding the mark making on walls that others leave, taking photographs being inspired to do the same thing in my own way, it is this that fuels my mark-making concepts and on-site painting, utilising a touch drawing method I spread out lining paper on the ground and intuitley draw and paint its fluid and gestural its  a practice I approach with the focused intensity of what I consider "Sigil hunting magic" – where channeling becomes a re- translation of the inherent energy of a location. Early in my artistic journey, grappling with the meaning of my own visual vocabulary, I discovered that these intuitive marks could serve as a conduit to a liminal state of creative flow. As someone with dyslexia and, I find visual communication a more direct and resonant form of expression.