Degree Show 2025

This project focuses on the re-imagining of old family archives, using them as a foundation to explore memory, atmosphere, and abstraction. Working with photographs taken before I was born, I was able to detach from the known figures and instead approach these images with a degree of emotional distance, with a subtle bias to remain. Through these borrowed compositions, I’ve been developing a visual language that prioritises negative space and restricted colours, allowing these elements to guide the narrative. Rather than conveying a specific message, the paintings invite atmosphere to take the lead, breathing new life into forgotten moments in ways that often surprise me.