Paintings

Portraits of Resilience

These imaginary portraits draw on Elizabethan and Flemish portraiture, medieval ‘doom’ paintings, and deep-sea diving. Symbols of restraint and defiance– the ruff, the diving helmet, and boxing gloves – act as both narrative and formal devices. Enigmatic women inhabit suspended spaces, engaged in interior exploration in a way that is contemplative, intimate, but ultimately defiant.

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Beyond Countenance, 2025, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm

Regalia, 2025, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm

At the Court of the Pugilist, 2025, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm

In Silence Sealed, 2024, oil on canvas, 60 x 40 cm

Diving Queen I, 2024, oil on canvas, 90 x 60 cm

Diving Queen II, 2024, oil on canvas, 90x60cm

Do you dare look?, 2024, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm

Coming to my senses, 2023, oil on canvas, 60 x 50cm

Jade Diver, 2024, oil on board, 40 x 30 cm

Demi Diver, 2024, oil on wooden panel, 15x15cm

Red Gloves, 2024, oil on canvas, 40x40cm

Helping Hands, 2024, oil on wooden panel, 15 x 15 cm

Dark Diver, oil on Fabiano pittura paper, 70 x 50 cm

Brown Diver, 2024, oil on board, ??x??cm

Yellow Pink Diver, 2024, oil on board, 40x30cm

Purple Diver, 2024, oil on canvas board, 35x25cm

Diver Remixed,2023, oil on paper, 70 x 50 cm

Histos

A series made from the viewpoint of the internal journeys of the women in The Iliad and The Odyssey. awaiting the return of their men from the Trojan Wars. Histos, in the original Greek, refers to the woven fabric or web of the loom. As well as paintings, this body of work included small sculptures and a short video, where loom weights become the embodiment of the maids slaughtered by Odysseus and Telemachus.

Crimson Broideries, 2021, oil on canvas

Wilt, 2021, oil on canvas

Trapped, 2018, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 cm

Band, Orange, 2019, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 cm

Band, Blue, 2019, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 cm