Many of my paintings begin with small observations -  flowers on a table, the colours of a place remembered after travel, or sunlight filtering through leaves. I rarely paint directly from life. Instead, these moments settle in memory and gradually re-emerge in the studio, evolving through gesture, layering and the physical process of painting. ​ Still life, landscape and abstraction naturally overlap within the work. A vase of flowers might become a meditation on time passing; a memory of light on water might dissolve into colour and movement. Across the paintings I am interested in how colour carries emotion, how light shapes atmosphere, and how fleeting moments can be translated into something lasting.