I am a painter, researcher, and lecturer on the MLitt Contemporary Art Practice programme and the Master of Fine Art. My research and practice examine the shifting relationship between representation and abstraction through painting, with a particular focus on landscape, memory, time, and space. I am interested in how painting can hold unstable and layered forms of experience, where place is not fixed or descriptive but constructed through perception, imagination, and material process.

My work often begins from landscape, but moves through fragmentation, interruption, and erasure. Through gestural mark making, layered surfaces, and partial concealment, I explore how painting can register traces of both lived experience and imagined space. Literature and language also inform my approach, particularly in relation to narrative, displacement, and the emotional charge carried by place.

A central concern in my recent research is the relationship between landscape and belonging. This has been shaped by my experience of living