I have fought against the insistence of painting to impose a subject upon me but have come to accept that all painting done honestly is always a self-portrait. For someone like me who doesn't want to be disabled, this is problematic. As long as I live, I will paint. And as long as I am alive, that work can only be a mirror. I don't like what I see, but I do it anyway.

‘Imperfect’ (2024) and ‘Unbroken’ (2025) are my first two bodies of work created on the Painting MA at The Royal College. As you’d expect, they both reflect my evolving practice