Working primarily in gouache and acrylic, my work moves restlessly between visual registers — from raw, emotive figuration to flat zones of colour, from bear-headed avatars to bruised, speech-scrawled portraits. I use painting as a way to surface what might otherwise be repressed: unresolved friendships, social unease, small moments of joy, absurdity, shame or humour. Many of my works feature scribbled text or fragmentary dialogue — things half-said, overheard, or suppressed.

I’m a SEN teacher based in St Leonards, and co-founder of The Cove Arts Award — a project connecting neurodiverse students to contemporary art, most recently in partnership with Hastings Contemporary. I also write and curate, with work featured in the Documents of Contemporary Art series (Whitechapel/MIT Press) and in the recent exhibition Tender Machines (London Museum of Water & Steam).

What connects my practice — across painting, teaching, writing — is a commitment to vulnerability as strength. A belief in scratched surfaces.