Bio

My practice explores themes of memory, identity, and transformation, grounded in career as medical doctor who specialises as a psychiatrist and group and individual psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Having spent years in the listening space — attuned to silences, repetitions, ruptures — I now work visually with those same psychological undercurrents. My transition into art was not a break from this work, but an extension of it: a shift from interpreting spoken narratives to material ones.

I am drawn to processes that mirror psychic structures — fragmentation, layering, concealment, repair. My techniques span ceramic sculpture, image transfer, cyanotype, and projection, alongside more traditional media like oil, acrylic, charcoal, and pastel. Across these mediums, I build textured, often unstable surfaces: impasto scraped back and reapplied; clay broken and reassembled; images blurred, ghosted, or distorted. These acts of making and unmaking reflect the emotional labour of remembering. They are nonlinear, disruptive, and never quite complete.

The works often inhabit liminal spaces: part-body, part-object; part-domestic, part-ruin. Recurring motifs include faces that resist full recognition, architectural echoes, handwritten fragments, and the traces of everyday objects. These images become containers for unprocessed memory; visual equivalents of the unsaid or the misremembered.

My background in psychiatry, particularly psychoanalytic thinking, shapes the way I approach both material and meaning. I am interested in surfaces as psychological fields. They are spaces that register pressure, damage, and time. My materials carry the weight of the past, often suggesting something unearthed, held, or left behind.

Ultimately, my practice aims to be an act of care — not toward fixing or clarifying, but toward holding and containing notions such as contradiction, grief, trauma, and ambiguity. Art offers me a different kind of listening: one that doesn't interpret or resolve, but instead allows meaning to emerge slowly, through form, gesture, and encounter.