My interest in urban systems, architecture, and the built environment informs much of my most recent work, which engages with the visual language of modernism through a contemporary lens to examine the spatial and psychological realities of urban Life.
Through painting and collage, I emphasize materiality and surface quality, often incorporating canvas, linen, fabric, and paint to create richly textured, dynamic surfaces with an almost sculptural presence. My process—both additive and subtractive—combines intuitive pattern-making, layering, and erasure, revealing traces of earlier compositions. This tactile approach mirrors cycles of accumulation and deconstruction, decay and renewal.
Inspired by the urban grid and Guy Debord’s concept of psychogeography, which considers how the built environment influences human emotions and behaviour, my ongoing "City Life" series translates the experience of contemporary urban spaces into densely structured, schematic patchworks of automatistic patterns and interlocking shapes, evoking city streets, intersections, and architectural façades. I aim to reflect some semblance of what Jane Jacobs termed the “sidewalk ballet”—the dynamic, ever-shifting performance of daily city life in which movements, though seemingly uncoordinated, come together in an intricate rhythm. Musicality and improvisational jazz further informs my practice, as In "Quintessence (Ode to Tristano)"—a nod to Lennie Tristano’s 1949 record "Intuition," one of the first freely improvised jazz recordings.
"Quintessence (Ode to Tristano)" | Acrylic, gouache, graphite, canvas and linen collage on masonite | 16 x 24 in.
"In Flux" (from "City Life" series) | Acrylic, gouache, graphite, canvas and linen collage on wood | 24 x 24 in.
"Symposium" (from "City Life" series) | Acrylic, gouache, graphite, canvas and linen collage on wood | 36 x 60 in.