About
Guided by Nietzsche’s conviction that life is justified only as an aesthetic phenomenon, my practice is an alchemical act. I transform lived adversity into an investigation of existence, using the canvas as a threshold where sensation, memory, and fracture are distilled. The raw material of a complex history is alchemised into a meditation on resilience, perception, meaning, and overcoming.
The work navigates a necessary tension between abstraction and figuration, mirroring the struggle to find coherence within entropy. Within this field, I explore the dark feminine, primal desire, and the aesthetics of confrontation. Archetypes and fragmented vignettes surface not as illustrations but as residues of a sustained inquiry into the mythic and the metaphysical.
The thinkers who have most shaped my approach are those for whom philosophy is not abstraction or rationalisation but a confrontation with the real: Nietzsche, above all, then Lyotard, Klossowski, Bataille, and Heidegger—alongside Jung’s depth psychology and the symbolic languages of hermetic and esoteric traditions. These are not separate influences but a single, if unruly, current: a study of forces, of hidden structures, of the ways intensity and meaning erupt at the edges of rational order.
My practice is grounded in a direct, inherited understanding of life’s fragility and endurance. It is a philosophical response shaped by formative experiences outside conventional narratives—a compelled questioning of all structures, which now fuels a relentless search for the patterns and forces that shape a life. The work does not depict this history; it is the logical, aesthetic output of a mind forged within it.
Education
Studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Foundation Diploma in Fine Art, Hackney College, London.
Printmaking (etching) and life drawing at the Royal Drawing School (formerly The Prince’s Drawing School).
