Newest Work (2025 -

My most recent paintings explore the emotional experience of watching cartoons and anime as a child, but not the cartoons themselves. I am most interested in the emotions of wonder, triumph and unbridled energetic excitement.

These ‘energy’ paintings are inspired by the visual effects typically used to depict energy, action or force in 1990s Japanese anime and American superhero cartoons. These effects include bursts, collisions, and radiating forms.

I use a process-based approach, developing a wide vocabulary of pastiched and imagined shapes and use colours pulled from these animations. I purposefully use acrylic paint and canvas, as a way to explore how brush marks can re-introduce the human hand to a graphical lexicon of shapes and how rough marks can enhance the explosive forces.

I am interested in capturing that flashing onscreen positive moment into something static to sit with and enjoy.