Working from observations of folklore celebrations, woodland environments and everyday encounters, I combine direct references with imagined elements to create psychologically charged spaces that exist between documentation and dream.

Figures appear both as people and archetypes; masks become portraits, landscapes become emotional terrains and ordinary locations take on symbollic significance.

I am drawn to the ambiguity of these moments where the boundary between the visible world and the imagined one begins to dissolve.

Painting allows me to balance description with disruption. Areas of carefully observed realism sit alongside loose, expressive passages in which forms are allowed to fragment or disappear. This tension reflects the nature of folklore itself: stories are retold, altered and remembered differently over time. the paintings resist fixed narratives, inviting the viewer to bring their own memories, beliefs, and interpretations to the work.

At the heart of my practice is an interest in the persistence of ritual within modern Britain. I see folklore not as nostalgia but as evidence of a continuing human need for ceremony, symbollism and connection with place. My work asks how theses traditions continue to shape contemporary identity and how landscape can act as both witness and participant in these shared cultural histories.