A drawer based in Cheltenham, currently working in oil pastel on paper exploring the figure and natural forms. The current work plays with themes of human interaction, it’s necessary vulnerabilities and representation of thoughts, repeatedly through the interference of nature. Drawn from owned photographs or modified found imagery; often rather than a portrait, figures and their interaction with their surroundings mean to convey a feeling or idea. Currently working in oil pastel on paper exploring the figure and natural forms. Through the current work I play with themes of human interaction, its necessary vulnerabilities and representation of thoughts, repeatedly through the interference of nature. Drawn from owned photographs or modified found imagery; rather than a portrait, figures and their interaction with their surroundings mean to convey a feeling or idea. Although they aim to be “beautiful” they can also incite a sense of unease and tension. Winner of the 2025 Jackson's Art Pastel Prize Recipient of the Anthony J Lester Art Critic Award at the Pastel Society Annual Exhibition 2025. Winner of the Drawing Award at the inaugural Cass Art Prize in 2024. Some works look at the monumentality of of women, their representation subjectivity in the world, others are simply my conversation with mundanity. The Rites of Spring is a series inspired by Pina Bausch’s version of the ballet, a story of ritual where a woman is chosen to dance herself to death. She asks us ”How would you dance if you knew you were going to die?” These works use stills from the ballet to think about ritual, collective expression and connection with the earth in brief, fleeting moment of dance. Much of my work centres on explorations of the inside of our minds, expressing how we interact with our own anxieties and countervailing feelings of constraint and support, overwhelm and creation, multiplicity and duality. These themes reappear in my thinking through all series.