ERC

Exhibitions and Open Calls

March 2026 - Jackson's Art Prize Longlist

January 2025 - The Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London - Anthony J Lester Art Critic Award Winner

December 2024 - Small Works Winter Exhibition, Spring Gallery, Cheltenham

November 2024 - Cass Art Prize, Copeland Gallery, London - Drawing Prize Winner

October 2024 - The Postcard Show, Sixteen Gallery, Cheltenham

August 2024 - Sixteen Online Summer Group Show, Cheltenham

Statement

I am a drawer based in Cheltenham. Although doing an Art Foundation in 2008 I went on to study graphic design and didn't return to a drawing practice until a short time ago.

Since then I have continued to move through different mediums, currently working in oil pastel on paper exploring the figure and natural forms. My journey into this new practice is at its beginning and I feel in an experimental stage as I grow and learn with each piece. Through the current work I play with themes of human interaction, its necessary vulnerabilities and representation of thoughts, repeatedly through the interference of nature. Drawn from owned photographs or modified found imagery; often rather than a portrait, figures and their interaction with their surroundings mean to convey a feeling or idea.

This ongoing collection explores ideas of the inside of our minds. They aim to express how we interact with our own anxieties and countervailing feelings of constraint and support, overwhelm and creation. Although they aim to be "beautiful" they can also incite a sense of unease and tension.