The Watcher Within
Original Artwork 2025
This piece came from a recurring dream I’ve had over the years, of being looked at by a huge eye, but not in a threatening way (I Promise). It felt like it was seeing all of me, including parts I wasn’t aware of. That became the starting point for this painting. The eye acts as a spiritual gateway, and from it rises ancestral figures made up of multiple faces. It’s about carrying your lineage within you. The floating pyramid adds a sense of a higher force, like something that’s guiding, challenging, or observing us from beyond. It’s about internal presence, deep memory, and unseen connection.
Acrylic on Canvas
16inch Round Canvas
Kaleidoscope Series:
This painting is part of the series called Kaleidoscope, and I feel like it really marks a new direction in my creative journey so far as an artist. I usually work in a cubist style, with bold patterns and colour, but with this series, I wanted to take those familiar elements and completely dismantle and reimagine them in new ways—stretching them into cosmic, emotional, and spiritual spaces.
A lot of the imagery in these pieces actually comes from dreams I’ve had in the past, really vivid, symbolic dreams that have stuck with me. They often involved portals, floating figures, shifting architecture, or being watched by something larger than myself. When I learned of the theme of this year's south-versed exhibition I referred back to my dream journal and I started sketching these ideas and realised they were all guiding me into a different way of working which I was really excited about.
For me circular canvas felt essential for this series. The shape is continuous, like a cycle or orbit, to me it holds complexity without needing edges. To me, each painting became a portal, and the title Kaleidoscope captures that sense of constant rearrangement. It’s a metaphor for how identity isn’t fixed. We’re always shifting, piecing together ancestry, memory, ambition, displacement, and spirituality into something that keeps evolving but is still uniquely us.
Overall, Kaleidoscope is about transformation, both personal and artistic. I’ve taken the visual language I’ve developed over time and stretched it into new territory, guided by dreams, memory, and intuition. Each piece is a portal, a layered world, and an invitation for the viewer to step inside and reflect on their own ever-evolving sense of identity and what it means to them.
The Watcher Within
Original Artwork 2025
This piece came from a recurring dream I’ve had over the years, of being looked at by a huge eye, but not in a threatening way (I Promise). It felt like it was seeing all of me, including parts I wasn’t aware of. That became the starting point for this painting. The eye acts as a spiritual gateway, and from it rises ancestral figures made up of multiple faces. It’s about carrying your lineage within you. The floating pyramid adds a sense of a higher force, like something that’s guiding, challenging, or observing us from beyond. It’s about internal presence, deep memory, and unseen connection.
Acrylic on Canvas
16inch Round Canvas
Kaleidoscope Series:
This painting is part of the series called Kaleidoscope, and I feel like it really marks a new direction in my creative journey so far as an artist. I usually work in a cubist style, with bold patterns and colour, but with this series, I wanted to take those familiar elements and completely dismantle and reimagine them in new ways—stretching them into cosmic, emotional, and spiritual spaces.
A lot of the imagery in these pieces actually comes from dreams I’ve had in the past, really vivid, symbolic dreams that have stuck with me. They often involved portals, floating figures, shifting architecture, or being watched by something larger than myself. When I learned of the theme of this year's south-versed exhibition I referred back to my dream journal and I started sketching these ideas and realised they were all guiding me into a different way of working which I was really excited about.
For me circular canvas felt essential for this series. The shape is continuous, like a cycle or orbit, to me it holds complexity without needing edges. To me, each painting became a portal, and the title Kaleidoscope captures that sense of constant rearrangement. It’s a metaphor for how identity isn’t fixed. We’re always shifting, piecing together ancestry, memory, ambition, displacement, and spirituality into something that keeps evolving but is still uniquely us.
Overall, Kaleidoscope is about transformation, both personal and artistic. I’ve taken the visual language I’ve developed over time and stretched it into new territory, guided by dreams, memory, and intuition. Each piece is a portal, a layered world, and an invitation for the viewer to step inside and reflect on their own ever-evolving sense of identity and what it means to them.