Portrait Gallery

While capturing a physical likeness is important to me, I’m equally drawn to revealing something deeper, the presence, the quiet energy that lingers beneath the surface. My portraits often explore emotion, memory, and the unseen self, blending realism with expressive mark-making and symbolic touches. I frequently work in layered watercolour and acrylics, including fluorescent colours that evoke energy and emotion. In my animal portraits, I’m inspired by Impressionism, capturing fleeting moments through light, texture, and movement. I often drop ink from a height, embracing the spontaneity of chance as the ink finds its own path, much like the unplanned beauty of light as it shifts through a sun-dappled forest or flickers between drifting clouds. This technique allows me to express not only motion, but also the playful, sometimes cheeky aura of the animals I paint, a blur between stillness and spirit. These works may also include semi-relief paints, sculptural textures, and other mixed media, inviting both visual and tactile engagement.