I’m an Ayrshire artist working with paint and felt to create colourful visual narratives that explore contemporary social and political issues through humour, familiarity, and storytelling. My practice combines abstract painted acrylic backgrounds with constructed felt elements, creating layered compositions that balance softness with tension, playfulness with unease.

Rooted in childhood memories, British popular culture, and everyday observation, my work draws on the visual language of theatre, puppetry, television, and simplified forms to encourage immediate connection with the viewer. Using felt as both a tactile and symbolic material, I explore the contrast between comfort and discomfort. Often associated with childhood, softness, and play, felt allows me to create work that initially appears approachable or light-hearted before revealing more complex emotional and political undercurrents beneath the surface. I use humour not to diminish seriousness, but to sharpen it.

In a cultural landscape that can often feel increasingly heavy, distant, and visually restrained, I want my work to retain a sense of colour, theatricality, and human connection. My influences include Thomas Grünfeld, W. W. Denslow, and Kara Walker, whose approaches to storytelling, symbolism, and simplified visual language continue to inform my own practice.

My path into art has been a personal and creative journey, beginning in hairdressing before moving into makeup artistry and eventually running my own theatrical makeup business. Those experiences shaped my love of colour, character, storytelling, and transformation, all of which continue to influence my practice today. Studying as a mature student at the Glasgow School of Art reflects my belief that creativity and reinvention can happen at any stage of life, approached with curiosity, resilience, and optimism.