My art takes its inspiration from people. I am fascinated by different cultures, expressions, movement and how light can affect mood. Faces are a particular interest to me, I love experimenting with different skin tones, eye colour and hair movement. I enjoy taking photos and stylising them to recreate a more unique image-picking out features and bringing them to life. I feel that you can tell what a person is feeling through their eyes, if I can’t recreate them the painting doesn’t work.

I enjoy painting large scale portraits, experimenting with graphics to enhance features; the technique I have developed over time is to test out colours directly onto the photograph to form a colour match. I mainly use acrylic paint, complemented by water-colour pencils and brush pens.

I have studied artists such as Lionel Smit, Hanjo Schmidt, Lucian Freud, Harding Mayor and Fred Hatt to support my current art a level project. I have taken inspiration from all of them to explore the idea of self-acceptance. Self acceptance and body image has never been so relevant, I have been able to delve deep into this controversial topic, creating some interesting pieces.