I am an artist, designer, and educator from the UK currently living in Hanoi, Vietnam. Having studied Fine art and worked in the London design industry I obtained a post-graduate certificate in design education at Goldsmiths University. After teaching design in London and at the United Nations International School in Hanoi I co-founded Work Room Four; an art, design and education consultancy in Hanoi in 2013.
Along with the Hanoi Open exhibition, Art For You art fair in partnership with Manzi gallery, various group, and solo shows, commercial design work, and creative education Work Room Four continues to nurture the arts community and its patrons in Vietnam.
In 2018, after a career supporting the endeavours of students and artists, I felt it was time to embark on my own journey as a practising artist and begin exhibiting. I continue to work as an education consultant and designer while pursuing my ambitions to exhibit and create artwork that engages and stimulates audiences.
My work is predominantly abstract in aesthetics with figurative motifs or content as tools for 'connecting' emotionally. I hope the work engages viewers to experience the image in a meditative way. If narratives are ever considered during the making process they orientate around the spiritual, psychological and emotional aspects of the human condition. I believe that looking at the spaces in-between, by noticing the metaphysical with prolonged reflection, often results in a more visceral sense of the form before us. From a more formal perspective, I look to disrupt the picture plane by creating a distorted perspective, intangible space and visual volume that communicates and invites questions of 'oneness and otherness' by making images alluding to infinite time, motion and scale in a static image.
Apart from the materials, their composition and application there is little I can say is categorically either there or not there. Art is only at work when completed by you, the viewer.
It has been said that art is an argument between form and content. If so, it is an argument greatly enriched by the presence of a curious and captivated audience. I hope you discover something in my work that enriches in return.
I am always happy to hear from artists, curators, media or students who are interested in my work collaboration or just curious.
