Making / Art

Art

I draw, paint and build things by hand.The longest project was a fully rigged wooden ship model built over nine years. Alongside it, I continue to paint, draw and work in wood.

9 Years

Hand-Built Ship Model

Oil Painting

Works on Canvas

Drawing

Graphite, Ink & Studies

Woodworking

Objects Built by Hand

Nine Years of Building

The rigged and painted ship model on its oak base, Dutch flag at the bow and a nameplate reading 2017–2026

The model

2017 – 2026

Complete up to the sails

Fully rigged, painted and mounted on its base — nine years from the first cut.

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Paintings

Oil, acrylic, watercolour and digital — landscapes, wildlife, portraits and invented places.

Alpine lake

Oil

The hunt

Oil

Roman general, portrait study

Oil

Little owl

Acrylic

Character portrait

Oil

Botanical study

Watercolor

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Drawings

Graphite, charcoal and coloured pencil — character studies, figures, animals and architecture.

Samurai girl

Charcoal

Masked portrait

Character study

Future Builders — a city in 2D

End of high school

Castle on the ridge

Ink & wash

Ballet dancer, figure study

Figure study

Animal head studies

Colored pencil

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Four shaped birch plywood parallette ends beside two turned beech rails, before assembly

Built by Hand

A pair of parallettes in birch ply and beech — cut, shaped and assembled, then used.

Making a Helmet

Built up in paper and card over a shaped form, then sealed and painted.

A head-shaped form wrapped in tape and film, the base the helmet was built over

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The form

A head-shaped base, wrapped and taped, to build the shell over.

The helmet shell in a smooth pale surface, the facet lines still readable

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The shell

Flat panels cut and joined facet by facet, print still showing.

The helmet built from faceted panels of card and newspaper, print still visible

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Sealed

Surfaced and smoothed, with the facet lines left legible.

The finished helmet painted in hard-edged black, white and tan camouflage with a black lower jaw

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Painted

Hard-edged camouflage over the panels, jaw blocked in black.

On the Impact of Social Media

High school · Acrylic

I painted this in high school while thinking about what social media was doing to attention, comparison and everyday life. The concern was never simply the screen itself, but how easily a system built to hold attention could begin to compete with the slower, less polished parts of ordinary life.

The painting gathers several of those ideas into one room: comparison with lives seen through a screen, short-term reward, isolation, the passing of time, and the uneasy gap between how life appears and how it is actually experienced.

Reading the painting

01The hook

The hooded figure is less a person than a mechanism: the persistent pull back toward the screen. What offers a moment of easy stimulation can also become difficult to leave.

Detail01 · The hook

Magnified detail of On the Impact of Social Media: The hook.