My art exists as a mirror to peace, a reflection of positive reflection. Overthinking can be detrimental to the mind. Populating a blank canvas, for me, is peace. I want the product of my peace to bring you bliss in your pondering. Staring deep into the surrounding darkness of my work will allow you to look deeper and perhaps find the gold in the darkest memories.
THE EMOTIONS EP - 2025
Greed as an emotion is widely overlooked, especially in a world full of consumption.
Hence why I wanted to make this piece a mirror for it.
In all honesty, this piece reminds me greatly of an individual with whom I demonstrated great greed, the shining light behind that being that I can now recognise how I was being greedy, and how I can change from that going forward.
When you look at greed, how does it make you feel? What details do you notice that you perhaps wouldn't have if you didn't stop and take the time to think? To reflect?
The deep, unsettling glare from the envious is what made this difficult to paint. Envy is laced through every ounce of her.
My experience with this painting brought me time to reflect on my current situation, not necessarily the emotion.
I was struggling a great deal with pressure from myself, hence the strange stride towards perfection in this painting. It lost the messy, sketchy feel of my usual work. Instead, gained a different angle of envy, one that shows how envy, of others being better than you, can make you strive to do better. I drove this further by painting the envious in my usual style, a knod if you will.
YNA COLLECTION - 2024-2025
If you didn't guess, I like reflecting on previous experiences.
Early 2025 brought me the great honour of presenting my first 3 paintings [the first ever], at the Young Norwich Artists exhibition in Anteros Gallery, Norwich.
I belived this to be it, a big break. People would see my work and love it, buy it, and art would be my full time career.
How naive can a young man be?
I think to myself as I lie awake at night, pondering where it all went wrong.
Why did he have such an ambitious dream?
Why did he believe in himself so much?
Why don't I feel like him anymore?
He wanted art to be his career so bad that he went to extremes of imagination and belief to make it. Even if it didn't work. He believed he was an artist.
This dull, dark time gave birth to my dream, my mission. He is the reason I paint. To quote Virgil, "for the 17-year-old version of myself".