My practice is rooted in painting and the art of the ‘ramble’. I approach rambling as both a methodological and philosophical framework, embracing the figure of the flâneur and non-linear, cyclical, and obscure art-artefacts. In my ramblings, I explore themes of narrative, hospitality, and identity.

This is a condition shaped by a family history of displacement and refuge, where home is not necessarily a fixed place but something carried, negotiated, and informed by shifting landscapes, interiors, and bodies.

I construct paintings from small component fragments which can be joined, separated, and remixed as the work develops. Without a predetermined canvas size or shape, my paintings are free to ramble across the wall, accumulating and spilling into the surrounding space. The architecture which hosts my work becomes part of the painting-object: its walls, corners, and interruptions are co-creators rather than instruments. In turn, my paintings alter how the space is encountered and inhabited.

I use this process to intertwine scenes of myth, history, and small moments of hospitality. I work with observation, colour, and memory in the creation of my living works – as they continually shift and resist completion, each moment an ephemeral cross-section of a living body.

If wandering describes a condition of being between places, hospitality offers a way of belonging within that uncertainty, and a method of addressing it: making space for what arrives. The modular painting becomes an enactment of this – its fragments accommodate one another, its boundaries remain open, and its form is continually capable of hosting more. Painting, to me, is a space that, like home, is an unending process, continually re-made through accumulation, movement, and welcome.