

Artist Statement
My practice moves between abstraction and symbolism, exploring identity, belonging, protection, and the unseen forces that shape human experience. I am interested in what exists beneath the surface — the emotional, psychological, and metaphysical layers that cannot be captured through literal representation.
Working primarily with oil, I build my paintings through layering, erasure, and reconstruction. The surface becomes a site of tension: structure against gesture, silence against eruption, control against vulnerability. Through this process, something hidden begins to emerge.
Much of my work is informed by lived reality — political unrest, war, social pressure, displacement — yet I do not aim to document events directly. Instead, I translate them into visual metaphors: a disrupted square, a heart as resistance, a boat adrift, a house that never fully belongs, a horizon that remains just out of reach.
I am drawn to metaphysical creation — the belief that something unseen is always forming beneath what we perceive. My paintings are acts of excavation and construction at once. They ask not for passive viewing, but for reflection. They invite the viewer to confront tension, to recognise fragility, and to consider what it means to search for belonging in an unstable world.
