ARTIST STATEMENT 

I am a contemporary figurative artist and now graduate in Fine Art: Painting & Printmaking at The Glasgow School of Art.

I depict the human figure, faces, characters, from life, also combining found imagery and archive to create narratives that may describe a theme. My practice realises the work through combinations of graphite, conte crayon drawings, etchings, printmaking and oil on stretched linen and canvas. 

Current themes I am exploring include, contemporary depictions of Venus and Mars in domestic settings, that may borrow and reinterpret themes and metaphors from allegorical traditional practices, such as Vermeer, Velazquez, Botticelli to more contemporary post-war practitioners such as Hockney and Freud. 

Themes in the artwork will explore personal experiences and possibly lived narratives, but will be depicted through the anonymous characters I collect. This allows me as an artist to remain anonymous through the work and allows the viewer to collage and impose themselves into the imagery. 

Future work may lift my veil of anonymity if I explore myself as a subject in my practice. 

I am the co-founder and co-host of the life drawing group, Glasgow Portrait & Figure, (formerly known as The Portrait and Life Collective).