Koi Carp Dreaming

This painting is part of a new series created after a major shift in my creative practice earlier this year. I began exploring ideas of spaciousness and immersion - creating surfaces you could visually fall into rather than simply look at. As the painting developed, it revealed itself as a gentle pool of koi carp slowly moving through light and water. The composition invites the eyes to move unhurriedly, gliding through areas of light and colour, pausing, then continuing on.
Artist grade acrylics on canvas , signed and ready to hang.

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My work explores the tension between wild expression and held space. I build layered, intuitive surfaces and let them find their own internal balance — unresolved, but complete. Colour is my primary language: bold, sometimes reckless. I want my paintings to land with immediacy, then reward slower looking. My process is intuitive, emotionally honest, and resistant to polish. I work primarily in acrylics and mixed media, responding to what each painting needs as it finds its way into being.
I am drawn to the works of Howard Hodgkin, David Hockney, Gerhard Richter and Brian Rutenberg — colourists whose work continues to influence my own.