My practice investigates the human figure as a site of relational energy, resonance, and presence. Working primarily with charcoal, I approach the body as an event rather than a static object, tracing thresholds between movement, atmosphere, and form. The work is process driven and adaptive, developed through five years of live virtual figure drawing with international collaborators. Under conditions of distance, temporal disparity, and limited sensory information, I explore how connection, perception, and embodiment persist across separation.
Marks arise through live responsiveness, registering breath, instability, and micro gestures that occur between artist and model. Using low impact materials, I translate embodied experience into visual outcomes that emphasise motion, spatial tension, and the negotiation between internal sensation and external conditions. Charcoal’s fragility, its tendency to snap, crumble, and resist control, is folded into the gesture so that variation in line carries meaning, holding resonance within a larger material cycle connecting bodies, land, and time.
The drawings move between clarity and dissolution, between weight and vanishing, allowing the figure to surface and recede like memory itself. Each work holds a record of encounter, inviting the viewer into that shared space where presence is felt rather than explained.
All works are photographed by me. I have antimetropia, which affects how I shift between close and distant focus in both drawing and documentation. I present the work as it is, trusting the collector to recognise the honesty in imperfect light.