collage
Collage functions within my practice as both a visual and philosophical process. Having first explored the medium as a child through an obsession with magazines and editorial imagery, I have since returned to it as a means of examining reconstruction, instinct, and the fragmented nature of experience. The act of cutting and reassembling reflects a wider understanding of human existence how we continuously edit, reshape, and redefine ourselves over time. Working intuitively, I allow compositions to form through spontaneity and emotional response, creating layered surfaces that evoke depth and movement. In this way, collage becomes a mirror of the world we inhabit: unstable, multifaceted, and constantly in flux.
A1 NEWS PAPER, CARD , INK, ACRYLIC, RED SAND TEXTURE MEDIUM, CANVAS 
A1 ACRYLIC, OIL PASTEL, CANVAS ,CARD ,SUGAR PAPER, SPRAY APINT , NEWSPRINT 
A1 acrylic, oil pastel 
A1 acrylic, charcoal, ink, oil pastel 
Gestural Form and Dimensional Mark-Making
This body of work explores what happens when a mark — once fluid, intuitive, and confined to the page — becomes something tangible, almost three-dimensional. These pieces bring gesture and expression into physical reality, translating the immediacy of drawing into constructed form.
Working intuitively, I move between painting, sculpture, and installation, allowing marks to evolve beyond their traditional boundaries. The forms echo the spontaneity of handwriting or bodily movement, yet they exist as solid structures — suspended between the act of making and the permanence of objecthood.
At its core, this work questions where a mark ends and an object begins, celebrating the tension between control and release, surface and depth, intuition and structure.
responding through collage
This work emerged as a response to crit feedback around the nature of my studio space its energy, its restlessness, its continual state of becoming. I wanted to push this further, allowing the mark to exist beyond the surface, to physically occupy space.
It became about what happens when an intuitive, gestural impulse transforms into something almost three-dimensional when the immediacy of drawing begins to breathe within real space. The process felt instinctive, like giving form to thought before it fully settled, letting expression spill outward into material.
Through this, I began to see my studio not just as a place of making, but as a living extension of my own expression a space where gesture, intuition, and material coexist in constant movement.
experimentation
This piece emerged from a timed exercise a self-imposed challenge to work instinctively under pressure. Using discarded fragments from previous collages, remnants of paintings, and string, I built layers that felt both chaotic and intentional. The act of cutting up and reassembling my own work became a dialogue with the subconscious — a way of exploring what surfaces when instinct overrides control.
In this process, I became increasingly interested in how pressure influences intuition. When the mind is stripped of time to overthink, does trust in one’s inner rhythm deepen? The resulting composition feels like a material translation of that inquiry raw, immediate, and reflective of the subconscious at play through form, texture, and gesture.
