This year I have been focusing on the personal lives of the people around me and myself. This current global situation has forced many people to consolidate their practices and subjects to make them achievable during this time. Currently my work is revolving around the issue of how to accurately and respectfully depict personal tragedy and complex relationships, along with the ideas of how people live with nuanced trauma in their daily lives. It’s important to me not to fall into the trap of making only maudlin work and focusing too much on the negative so I like to think of my work as a way to look at all aspects of the difficulties of life without forgetting the triumphs of it as well. My work is based on the belief that I cannot create work that is authentic if I do not attempt to translate my experience and personal knowledge into my art. My practice is singular in its pursuit of depicting in my own visual and symbolic language, topics, and events, that I feel I have the breadth of understanding to render into paint. My medium is as important to me as my concepts. I have a long-standing relationship to paint and its materiality. My view of the world and its concepts is a detailed and intuitive one, as such I find that paint allows me to find that on canvas in a much more successful way than other mediums can. I’m also a bit of a materialist, or an anti-minimalist, Marie Kondo would be disappointed in me, I think. I love the physicality of painting I love the object and the real. My most recent work is about my relationship with my father and the effects of the lockdown on our daily lives. This work is the epitome of my current practice in both its physical form and its multifaceted symbolism.