After years working as a photographer, filmmaker and designer I began to notice a decline in the sense of craft and connection I had to my work. 

Embracing digital media in my 20s opened up many opportunities for me to execute my project ideas, secure arts funding and develop as an artist. However, over time, I became disengaged with the 'flatness' of digital imagery and disheartened by a societal preference for quantity over quality.

My passion for taking photographs and making short films felt like it was dwindling against a tidal wave of snaps and videos. It began to feel like a waste of time to create yet more content for the 'digital heap'.

I started to become envious of painters. The tactile nature of their practice, the textures, surfaces and human movement ... all so enticing.

In recent years, as part of my recovery from severe depression and a debilitating breakdown, I have been emptying my thoughts and feelings into pages and pages of journals.

I then took a leap into 'journalling' with paint. I set up a small studio space in my bedroom and with music on and brushes to hand I spend time each day with a canvas. Thinking less, moving more.

I'm surrounding myself with these expressive paintings, hanging them up in my home and giving them out to family and friends who have been instrumental in my recovery. 

This new energy sparked older ideas from photography and editing days and over time I have developed a method whereby I can digitally 'paint' using photographs, of paint.

I create palettes of close up (macro) paintwork images taken from a range of sources including found objects, my own, expressive, abstract paintings, used paint palettes, easels, studio floors and exterior walls and surfaces.

By combining, blending and layering these images I am able to create different vantage points, alter perceptions of scale and build something new from dismantled parts.