I make drawings, prints, paintings and small sculptures inspired by everyday life, the trees on my walks, a table, a building site, a colour palette from a trip.

I start by noticing ordinary things. I'm interested in the brain as a pattern hunter; how it relates to our basic fight or flight needs and how it fuels imagination. From there, the work tends to drift somewhere slightly unexpected. I often build up images in layers, paint over drawing, collage into paint, mark-making woven through, so the surface and materials themselves become part of how meaning shifts. Shapes wobble or overlap; patterns creep in; something that began as a simple observation becomes a little humorous, or quietly strange. I’m interested in that moment when the familiar tips into the unfamiliar, a wheelbarrow casting an odd shadow, a road sign glimpsed at speed, a bird that suddenly seems to be watching you, colours out of context but all the while making sense.

My sculptural pieces work in a similar way, using found and simple materials to explore how objects balance and sit together. Across everything I make, it really comes down to one thing: paying attention to what’s already around us, and finding that it’s more alive and strange than we often notice.