Nature is my greatest solace. I have always been ‘off with the fairies’, the wild deeply attracts me, nature being a consistent inspiration for my imagination throughout my life.  I create detailed paintings of british landscapes with oil paint as a way of re-exploring these environments I was at one point present in. My work is an exploration of what being alive means to me; the wonder of it all, the beauty in the strange and overlooked, but also the darkness that seeps through and lingers, even when you think it's gone. 

My art embraces the dark and morbid, inspired by gothic subject matters and aesthetic preferences. Themes of alienation and melancholia infect every scene i paint regardless of intention, due to the contexts behind each environment. Having grown up in London, industrialisation surrounds my way of living, and it’s influence feels present at all times. My painting’s tone confronts the uncanny feeling brought on by the human manipulation of the natural world.

I do not want people to be off put by my imagery of innards. They are a celebration of life, not an attempt to disgust. I can admit my interest in gore is morbid; it as a persistent subject matter in my art having started as a response to my experience with an eating disorder and various other self destructive tendencies. But as I have grown as a person, my perspective on using ‘gore’ as a subject matter in my art has developed into more of a celebration of the body, and an attempt to highlight the beauty in the often disregarded. My relationship with nature has matured with me, and through reconnecting with it i have better reconnected with my body. 

I hate when people say ‘humans aren't animals’. By confronting the abject, we can confront our own state as physical beings, as animals- to acknowledge the internal just as much as the external.