I am a landscape artist based in West Sussex. I recently graduated from the University of Chichester with a BA (Hons) Degree in Fine Art and completed an MFA at West Dean College in July, 2026.
My style is gestural and spontaneous with loose strokes creating a sense of movement and atmosphere. I am interested in the interplay of light and shadow and exaggerate the fleeting shapes that mark the passing of time. My works are my personal response to my surroundings, not in grand places but in the every-day as part of a process of quiet noticing. I work in charcoal, acrylics and oil on linen, birch board and handmade papers.
The past two years have been spent in the inspiring grounds of West Dean College where I am completing an MFA, responding to encounters such as the looming trees of St.Roche's Arboretum. My exhibition at the West Dean Summer Show was a culmination of these experiences in nature, conveying a sensation not only of the 'green and pleasant' aspect of the landscape, but also hinting at the eerier side of the English countryside. With atmospheric monochrome drawings, I created an otherworldly, haunted space that was unsettling and disquieting. This strategy of using charcoal to blur and obscure, creates an estrangement to nature which asks questions about the past, present and future of the environment. By making nature obscure in this way, I hope to draw attention to our relationship with the natural world at a time when it is at its most exploited and damaged.
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Recent Group Exhibitions
2026 Guest Artist, Artisan Gallery, Chichester,
2026 The Gallery at Green and Stone Summer Exhibition, Fulham Road, SW3
2026 West Dean Summer Show, West Dean College, Sussex and London
2025 Guildford House Exhibition, Guildford
2025 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, SW1
2025 RA REJECTS, Stokey Pop-up, Stoke Newington, N16
2025 Chichester Open Studios Snap-Shot Exhibition, Oxmarket Contemporary
2024 Here+Now, Oxmarket Contemporary
2024 Hot Border - Copeland Gallery, Peckham
2024 West Dean Summer Exhibition, Edward James Studios
2023 - 2026 University of Sussex at West Dean, MFA Fine Art
2023 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, The Mall Galleries
2023 University of Chichester Graduate Show, St Michael's Campus
2020 - 2023 University of Chichester, BA (Hons) Degree