Painting has always been a visceral and instinctual experience for me, rooted in the freedom I felt as a child when painting on endless rolls of paper in the garden. That early rhythm of mark making, movement and flow still informs my process today. Continuing to feed into this muscle memory, I now see painting as a site of resistance, reimagination and catharsis. My practice interrogates the historical representation of the female body and its lasting impact on contemporary visual culture and the digital realms. I observe the rapid consumption of images online, questioning the power structures and biases that shape and distort perception and collective consciousness. My artistic method is experimental and intentionally breaks from traditional artistic boundaries. I use oil paint—a medium historically associated with permanence and legacy—as a counterpoint to the fleeting nature of online imagery. This contrast allows me to reclaim time and space in a culture driven by speed and surface. I am pushing the classical form toward abstraction, offering poetic reimagining of the female figure and its place within the cultural landscape. One of the most important aspects of my work starts with unseeing and drowning out every image and representation of the female form I’ve ever seen. My method allows me to escape the things I’ve absorbed or learned, anything that may bias my imagination, whilst exploring and challenging inherited narratives. I start by collecting found images as loose references - anything from beauty ads to erotic stills, reflecting on consumer culture. The first and most time consuming part of my process is digitally painting the figure in hundreds of layers. I keep shifting and turning these painted parts until something new and interesting emerges, before painting this composition in oil on canvas. I believe that sense of movement is captured somehow and makes its way into the finished oil painting: Everything is in motion and floating, everything is possible. It’s a process guided by intuition and artistic freedom that led me to my distinct visual vocabulary and artistic vision. Despite their boldness, the compositions maintain a strange harmony—never tipping into chaos but instead holding a precarious, deliberate balance. My works embrace complexity, ambiguity, and transformation. There are parallels to the Dadaist writers and their Découpé technique, an aleatory literary approach in which a written text is cut up and rearranged to create anew and to reveal hidden meaning. I see the body as a constantly shifting, multidimensional entity. This exploration has taught me to embrace the impermanence that defines us all. The ongoing evolution of our bodies reflects our human impermanence, reminding me that we are always in a state of flux. With all my works, they contain a multitude of nuances, layers, and meanings, and these are manifested in the process, composition and concept. Each shape seems to move and hover, rearranging with every glance, always on the brink of something - like a shifting dynamism enhanced by the blurred softness and sharper forms continually coming into focus. I intentionally try to engage the viewer with this forever-in-flux arrangement that reveals new layers of meaning with each new look.