ABOUT

My work uses acrylic paints on canvas to render camouflage patterns, not to glorify concealment but to examine it. By painting these patterns slowly, I pull camouflage out of its usual world of speed, function and toughness. It stops being just military or macho and becomes a place to think about emotion, equality and the spaces where art and everyday life meet - or fail to.

In that, the internet is key as it has provided a means to ‘blend in’. It allows me to see beyond the boundaries that made art feel remote growing up, yet it also intensifies the tension: am I blending in, or losing myself in the process?

My paintings hold this tension. Between hiding and revealing, between working-class upbringing and art-world expectation, between what feels genuine and what feels like adaptation. Camouflage becomes a metaphor for hiding from vulnerability and resisting emotional openness. What was meant to obscure instead invites close looking. What was meant for battle becomes a quiet confrontation with the self. The work asks what it costs to hide and what might happen if we let ourselves be seen.