My journey as an artist began with drawing faces. As a child I was fascinated by the emotions hidden in expressions and the quiet stories a single glance could reveal. At twelve I began creating realistic pencil portraits, studying light, shadow and detail with intense focus. By fourteen I received my first portrait commissions, and at sixteen I registered my own art business.

Through social media my portraits reached collectors and public figures around the world, leading to commissions for artists such as Tiësto, Rohan Marley and Calvin Harris. Despite the recognition, I gradually felt a growing distance from the work. My portraits were technically precise, yet always based on photographs. Over time I realised I no longer wanted to recreate what I saw, I wanted to paint what I felt.

This realisation marked the beginning of my transition into painting and abstraction. For a period realism and abstraction coexisted, with fragments of faces appearing through layers of colour and texture. Eventually the figures disappeared entirely, leaving only movement, colour and emotion.

In abstraction I found the freedom to explore a more intuitive language of painting, one that now allows me to translate the impressions, atmospheres and landscapes I encounter through travel into abstract form.