My Profile

My work is unashamedly representational and I aim to shine joy into people’s lives
I use soft pastels for the primal feeling of applying and mixing pigment with my fingers directly onto a surface. I also like surprising people’s concept of pastels (mostly they’ve only seen them being used for courtroom depictions of villains or by pavement artists)
I’m largely self-taught, and have been drawing and painting for 10 years. My favourite subjects are portraits and mountains. My professional and academic life was in science and technology, so my artistic voice struggles against seeing the world as data to be explained factually and rationally, but it never shuts up and has to be served, and I’m enjoying seeing the world with fresh eyes.