I often imagine painting as secret letters to lovers in words I never spoke.

My practice explores the varying facets of love. The forms it takes. How it moves and settles within me. Delusion, devotion, desire: my love shifts between them all. I describe myself as a painter, however, I am constantly pushing that term, working with drawing and sculpture alongside my primary acrylics practice. I find comfort in moving across materials, leaning into their contrasting qualities to mirror the blinding contradictions I encounter when navigating love/s.

There's a fascinating tension that falls between softness and strain, a condition I recognise equally in both intimacy and artmaking. As well as a vulnerable depiction of love, my obsession with beautiful things contrasts my honesty with superficiality.
I use recurring motifs alongside confessional titling to reflect this. Creating pictures that are perceptually beautiful, alongside conceptually charged confessions, embraces the opposing sides of my compulsive attraction.

A sequence of behaviour and memory, lipstick stains and abandoned toothbrushes. Through making, I aim to promote the strength within vulnerability, and dialogues surrounding intimacy from the perspective of a young woman in Aoetearoa.

By transforming private moments into a public format, I invite personal confrontations of your desire and contradiction. Through an ongoing practice, I expose my most honest confessions, in a language only I can fully comprehend, playing with the back and forth of performance, playfulness and passion in the translation of one love to the next.