Born in Penang, Malaysia. I live and work in London.
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts, London.
My work is based on found photographic images sourced from old wildlife, gardening and nature books that I have collected for many years. Plants and flowers are often the starting point. Herbals, botanical drawings, textiles, fashion and folklore are interests.
I draw with paint on canvas and wooden panels. A grid-like woven quality can be found in the organic plant forms that I wish to mirror in the drawing and in/on the canvas that I use in my painting. I focus on the image and interpret it and hope this also pulls the viewer into the work. Scale varies from small, intimate detailed pieces with more complex patterns to larger pieces where I am concerned with place and memory in a more spatial way, these have more "air" in them, so that the space is more open. Colour plays an important part in the process. It may be limited and reduced but balanced and flattened so that the paintings have a unified surface that recall textiles, fabric or wallpapers with less depth in them.
An element of another time or sense of history and searching is important to me. I continue to be interested in themes of identity and migration. .A sense of otherworldliness is found through the act of painting.
GROUP SHOWS:
The Showroom. London.
The Institute of Cultural Anxiety, ICA, London.
Art Futures, Bloomberg Space, London.
Kaleidoscope, Sturiale Contemporary Arts at the House of Culture, Smartno, Slovenia.
Peckham Platform Open Exhibition, London.
Pleasure & Beauty, Carnegie Library, London.
Camberwell Arts Festival.
WUNDERKAMMER Eagle Gallery, EMH Arts, London.
155a a r t i s t s. s p a c e London.
Annual Dulwich Festival, Artists' Open House, London.
Super Nature at The Garden Museum, London. 2021
SOLO SHOWS:
PLANTHUNTER Jeannie Avent Space, London. 2019
STUDIO Jeannie Avent Space. 2021
COLLECTIONS: Origin Ltd. Sacks Maguire Architects. A. Nelson & Co. Fidelity International.
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts, London.
My work is based on found photographic images sourced from old wildlife, gardening and nature books that I have collected for many years. Plants and flowers are often the starting point. Herbals, botanical drawings, textiles, fashion and folklore are interests.
I draw with paint on canvas and wooden panels. A grid-like woven quality can be found in the organic plant forms that I wish to mirror in the drawing and in/on the canvas that I use in my painting. I focus on the image and interpret it and hope this also pulls the viewer into the work. Scale varies from small, intimate detailed pieces with more complex patterns to larger pieces where I am concerned with place and memory in a more spatial way, these have more "air" in them, so that the space is more open. Colour plays an important part in the process. It may be limited and reduced but balanced and flattened so that the paintings have a unified surface that recall textiles, fabric or wallpapers with less depth in them.
An element of another time or sense of history and searching is important to me. I continue to be interested in themes of identity and migration. .A sense of otherworldliness is found through the act of painting.
GROUP SHOWS:
The Showroom. London.
The Institute of Cultural Anxiety, ICA, London.
Art Futures, Bloomberg Space, London.
Kaleidoscope, Sturiale Contemporary Arts at the House of Culture, Smartno, Slovenia.
Peckham Platform Open Exhibition, London.
Pleasure & Beauty, Carnegie Library, London.
Camberwell Arts Festival.
WUNDERKAMMER Eagle Gallery, EMH Arts, London.
155a a r t i s t s. s p a c e London.
Annual Dulwich Festival, Artists' Open House, London.
Super Nature at The Garden Museum, London. 2021
SOLO SHOWS:
PLANTHUNTER Jeannie Avent Space, London. 2019
STUDIO Jeannie Avent Space. 2021
COLLECTIONS: Origin Ltd. Sacks Maguire Architects. A. Nelson & Co. Fidelity International.
