My paintings explore how memory shapes our sense of belonging.

Working between the human figure and the landscape, I begin with photographs, observed moments, and personal histories. Through painting, these images gradually move beyond their origins and become reflections on identity, inheritance, connection, and place.

Working primarily in oil on canvas, I develop each painting through a process of layering, reduction, and attention. Forms appear and dissolve through light, gesture, and atmosphere. The figure often becomes less a portrait of a particular person than a place where experience is held and remembered.

Many works begin with fragments — a photograph, a remembered place, a fleeting encounter. Over time, they shift away from documentation and towards something more open, where personal and shared experience can meet. Landscape becomes more than a setting; the body more than a form.

These paintings are created in Scotland as part of an ongoing practice shaped by memory, ancestry, migration, and the search for belonging. They do not offer answers. Instead, they invite a slower way of looking — one that allows meaning to emerge over time.