My multimedia practice explores my response to the complex nature of romantic love. Though the work is based on personal experience I reflect on universal themes of longing, obsession and yearning. The work is both an autobiographical visual diary and a discussion on modern relationship dynamics, the challenges of social media and a search for meaningful connections.

My making process and material choices are dependent upon the emotions I am trying to convey, using specific materials which hold their own subtleties therefore strengthening the emotions within the work. I use oil paint on small intimate sheets of paper, moving the paint in continuous circles to create a soft and repetitive work. With longing comes the experience of absence, when exploring time in this way I have found myself obsessively working for hours completing the same movement or mark, creating work that shows this infatuation and an obsessive side to love. With sculpture and clay there is an inherent hardness yet I approach it in a gentle delicate way, mixing both hard and soft as the work calls for it. Through my iterative approach to making, I aim to capture the emotional turbulence that we face today within relationships as a whole, using personal experience to define these experiences.