At the end of the master’s show, I started working part-time in freelanced work, exploring natural found materials, and creating new textural work. Having explored the fields of political and social movements, the next part of my journey is to teach the community and to become a teacher of arts. My hopes are to let students explore and express their style on canvas, and that movement and feeling towards expressing their work as I did at Gray’s school of Art. My five years at Gray’s pushed those boundaries, I began to really flourish in my third year at the university - even though my third year was during the pandemic, I got to know myself better and what I really wanted to achieve in my artwork. I wouldn’t have got here without my tutors pushing me forward in development stages to know art doesn’t have to be ‘painting in-between the lines’.
My artwork presents a dark subject matter: police aggression and brutality towards different races. The way I produce my work is by sketching out figures and creating dark illustrative marks - representing the darkness this matter holds for the individuals effected.
