I don't have a work in progress, because I am the work in progress.
I have never been able to sit still.
Even at school, the margins of my books were filled with shapes and patterns, a small clue that my mind was always looking for ways to be creative.
Since then, creativity has appeared in every chapter of my life: illustrated stories, interior and product design ideas, songwriting, novels, and eventually painting, where colour, texture, and imagination finally came together.
This portfolio brings those creative threads together. None of them were planned in advance, but each one became a step toward the artist I am becoming today.
About Moi!
I started painting in my mid twenties for a very simple reason: I was bored.
My old school doodles followed me into adulthood, so I decided to give them a proper place on a canvas. That was the beginning of a creative journey I did not fully understand at the time.
Over the years, my work has evolved in many directions, from geometric shapes to children’s books, interiors, product ideas, mixed media, and now a growing collection of more organic paintings. I do not sketch or plan much; I prefer to let the paint (or resin... or leaves...) decide where it wants to go.
I am a lifelong experimenter. Each decade has changed the way I create, and I enjoy watching my art grow with me. This portfolio brings together the many stages of that evolution from the bored doodler to the artist I am becoming today.
How do I work?
For most of my life, I worked in a pre-smartphone world, when taking photos of works-in-progress was not something people typically did.
So, my journey into the art world developed without much documentation, and very often, without a definite plan. This is ironic, considering that professionally I am a project manager by trade, someone who plans everything on paper and thrives on structure. Planning is in my DNA... just not, apparently, when I am holding a paintbrush.
I work by responding to what is in front of me; be it colour, texture, movement, an unexpected shape, or simply the way the day feels. Ideas tend to appear as a spark after seeing another artist’s work, walking through a gallery, or in the middle of doing something entirely different. I rarely sketch paintings first; instead, I start, adjust, destroy, rebuild, layer, scrape back, and at times argue with the canvas until we reach a truce. I have also painted over old work that did not make the cut or canvases inherited from fellow artists. Luckily, I love a stubborn bit of old texture showing through new work. Because of this, my journey evolves through experimentation, trying new materials and unconventional tools, be it toys or even the odd kitchen utensil.
This portfolio reflects that journey shaped by intuition and logic, experimentation and reinvention, decades of exploration, and a lifelong desire to be creative.
But I can Learn
And I did!
My interior design training at KLC is one of the best examples of this.
It pushed me into sketching, product design, technical drawings, and visual planning, all skills I had to pick up quickly.
These pages show a period of my life where I learned to translate ideas into visuals when required, not just intuitively, but intentionally.
