A drawer based in Cheltenham. Currently working in oil pastel on paper, I’ve been developing my drawing practice over the last 3 years. My work explores the figure and natural forms, playing with themes of human interaction, its necessary vulnerabilities and representation of thoughts repeatedly through the interference of nature. Rather than a portrait, figures and their interconnection with their surroundings mean to convey a feeling or idea. Pieces are built of layers of colour and texture that the paper breathes through, and although they aim to be “beautiful”, they can also incite a sense of unease and tension. I am deeply interested in multitudes. Through the work, I am investigating how we interact with our own anxieties and the countervailing feelings of constraint and support, overwhelm and creation; the multiplicity and duality that we all and the world around us contain. Each series contains aspects of this exploration into plurality, be it through trying to understand the monumentality of women; thinking about ritual and connection; working in duets, looking at how things can be seen from multiple ways at once; or simply exploring dreams or my conversations with mundanity. The work does not shout; it can be very quiet. 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.