I make semi figurative and abstract oil paintings of myself and women I know, who have struggled being their bodies at different stages of their lives and situations. I paint many layers, over time, focusing on gesture and emotion, keeping mistakes and missteps. I reinforce distortion and inaccuracy. As an aphantasic artist, with no internal visual imagery, I use this deliberately in the development of the abstraction, and accurate, inaccuracy of the work.

I am interested in how much women hold in their bodies; joys, scars, experiences, fat, shame, pride, survival, life, death and how both the joy and grief of woman are equally valid, particularly as we age. Humour comes in to the work, a nod to the ironic and the brave face we show to the world. Faces are simplified or absent to represent my own aphantasia and to recognise to the universality of experience. Bodies stand, sit, pose dance, leap, curl, hide are incomplete or disappear into the background.

These paintings are for made for women who have survived, in all their shapes, sizes. It matters that we are acknowledged, with all our flaws, beauties, angers and laughters.

The work belongs to a longer tradition of figurative abstraction, particularly Baselitz, Basquiat, Dumas and Bradford.

Collectors experience my work as expressive, powerful and emotional.

My works are in private collections in the United Kingdom, Europe and United States and can be viewed at BlueHouse artspace