DESIDERIUM 2025

Through installations and paintings, I transforms the remnants of once-lively blooming gifts of affection, tokens of beauty, offerings in death into vessels of mourning and reverence. These flowers, once taken from nature to signify care, now serve as relics of impermanence, preserved in transparent vessels and embedded into the domestic remnants of the past. I mourn for these wilted and dried out flowers, and accordingly personalises flowers as a metaphor for how the natural environment itself can experience grief, suggesting that nature's mourning is not always visible.

An installation holds dead flowers in clear compartments, suspended like moments frozen in time, while a series of paintings occupies the frames that once housed family photographs. These frames become reliquaries, hosting layered memories and the painted remains of flowers, tethering personal mourning to the broader grief of environmental decline. 

I confront the embodied nature of grief, treating the physical act of making through painting, sewing, and arranging, as a mode of healing and reflection. Desiderium invites viewers into an intimate and tactile contemplation of the ways we carry loss, in both body and space, and the delicate boundary between mourning and remembering, between ecological and personal grief.

FINDING REVERIE 2025

Finding Reverie is a meditation on presence, memory, and the quiet weight of grief. Following the loss of someone deeply important to me, I found myself searching for stillness and meaning in the everyday. Moments that previously passed unnoticed became charged with emotional significance. In this body of work, I explore how seemingly mundane experiences can become sacred through remembrance and artistic creation.

My paintings depict figures immersed in natural landscapes. These paintings draws inspiration from the Romantic movement, where nature becomes a vast emotional mirror and the human figure is humbled within it. The landscape is not merely a backdrop, however a vital presence creating space for introspection, memory, and reverie. It holds the emotional weight of the moment, becoming a sanctuary to reflect within.

These scenes are not grand gestures, but subtle acts of preservation. Each painting becomes a vessel to hold and protect a fleeting moment, transforming the ordinary into something quietly reverent.

Through this body of work, I navigate the terrain of loss, not by recreating absence, but by celebrating presence. There is grief here that can be dark and daunting. There is also renewal, a reverie rediscovered in the stillness of a glance, a shadow in the water, or the hush of a shared silence. These paintings are keepsakes for memory, time and the gentle resilience of holding on to a moment.