I paint emotions, giving them characters, colour and a life of their own.
My work comes from street art, pop and toy culture and the things I loved growing up. Adverts, cartoons, film posters, crisp packets, toys and all the strange little bits of visual stuff that stuck in my head.
My work explores the things we don’t always see. Our moods, feelings, contradictions and the parts of ourselves that can be hard to put into words. By giving them character, I can see them, understand them and make sense of them. I can own them.
My characters are bursting with mixed emotions. They are happy, sad, chaotic and playful. Life is messy, sometimes my work expresses this. Other times there’s control and I use symmetry, shape, colour and repetition to give the chaos some structure.
There’s nostalgia in my work, but there’s something much more personal going on. The characters I create are a reflection of what’s happening inside me. I’m a lot of things. Not one thing. Not simple. Certainly not perfect. A work in progress.
