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My practice explores memory, spirituality, displacement, and humanity’s relationship to the Divine. Through painting, I consider how personal experience, ancestral history, and the natural world might connect with unseen spiritual realities. I am interested in how identity is shaped not only by geography and inheritance, but also by faith, intuition, memory, and presence. My work asks what traces of the sacred might exist within the landscape, the body, and our memories.
I have experienced identity as fluid, fragmented, and continually shifting. My Jamaican, European, Chinese, and West African ancestry, and having lived between New York, Tokyo, and elsewhere, multiple cultural and spiritual traditions, such as Judaism, Catholicism, Buddhism, and Hinduism have influenced my relationship with the unseen. Rather than seeking a fixed sense of belonging, my work embraces this multiplicity. I am interested in whether fragmentation can become a form of continuity, and whether different parts of ourselves can exist together without needing to be resolved.
At the center of my practice is a belief in art-making as a form of communion -- a way of approaching the Divine through attention, contemplation, and openness. I see the impulse to create as a gift, and painting as a process of listening as much as making. Landscape, gesture, atmosphere, and memory become ways of exploring presence, spirit, and transformation.
Influenced by Gutai, Shan shui painting, Surrealism, Caribbean Intuitive painting, and spiritual abstraction, my work moves between figuration and abstraction, stillness and movement, intimacy and vastness. Rather than offering a fixed narrative, the paintings remain open to interpretation. They create macro and micro spaces where the visible and invisible, the physical and metaphysical can briefly meet.
I am currently based in Passau, Germany. I hold a BA in Studio Art from Pomona College and an MA in Painting from Royal College of Art in London.