"My practice is rooted in abstraction and in the freedom that painting offers to respond to experiences that cannot always be articulated through recognizable imagery. I approach the canvas as a space as a space in which colour, gesture, texture and movement can develop intuitively, allowing each painting to emerge through the process of making rather than from a completely predetermined image.

My earliest artistic practice was stone sculpture, and that experience established a lasting relationship with materiality and physical process. After moving into painting, I initially worked extensively with acrylic before gradually making oil my primary medium. although the materials changed, my interest in the physical construction of an artwork remained. I continue to approach the painted surface as something that can be built, disrupted and transformed.

I work with brushes, palette knives and long blades, moving between direct gestures and more deliberate interventions. Some paintings develop rapidly, while others are revisited over extended periods. Layers may be added, obscured or transformed as the work evolves. This process creates a continuous negotiation between intention and unpredictability, allowing decisions made at different moments coexist within the same surface.

Rather than illustrating a specific narrative, I use abstraction to respond to changing emotional and atmospheric conditions. I am interested in how colour, density, rhythm and gesture can register states that are temporary and difficult to define. The paintings become records of these shifts, retaining traces of movement, revision and accumulated experience. For me, painting is ultimately a process of discovery. I do not seek complete control over the final image. I establish conditions, respond to what appears on the canvas and allow the work to redirect me. It is within this exchange between conscious decision and unexpected development that I find the energy of the painting and the possibility for each work to acquire its own presence.

“I would consider myself a man of depth. Expressed not in word or statement, but to be expressed and interpreted visually”