I am a London-based Dutch-English painter (b. 2001, Amsterdam) whose work spans oil, acrylic, and drawing. I make paintings that begin with observation and build on the imaginary. My paintings are often large-scale. Dense with repeated gestures, accumulated washes, and layered marks, they explore how our state of being is held within space: landscapes that curl inward, shift underfoot, or press against the eye as boundaries and disappearing horizons. These are images of pressure and isolation, but also of refuge. My experience of partial deafness shapes the logic of my painted world. I’m attuned to pattern, to the blurring of form, to the quiet of turning away from the crowd. In some ways, I feel we are all experiencing a kind of deafness in this modern world. In an age of overload, my work proposes the painting as a place where information can be misremembered, lost, or remade.

My paintings currently centre on two subjects: the pond and lichen. Both hold a state of mind. The pond is an individualistic body of water, small, separate, and self-contained. When I imagine being submerged, the senses muffle. There is a feeling of Dual inhabitation, of existing in two spaces at once, while the world above becomes obscured and time moves differently. Lichen, by contrast, grows outward and takes over. Repetitive yet space-filling, completely self-sufficient, it defies categorisation while continuing to spread. I use it to represent brain fog and habitual thinking. Buzzing with information, saturated with moss greens, everywhere at once, yet somehow apart from everything else. Within both concurrent landscapes in my practice, painting and drawing are central. This is because painting is self-contained and holds a story, and for me, Stories and patterns create a space of comfort.

Exhibitions

2025

2025
Phantom Limb, solo show,
Glasgow SWG3

2023
On the shoulders of Giants, Glasgow Art Club,
group exhibition

2023
Chromo, group pop-up show
Glasgow

2023
Curated and participated in a show at Salt-space Cooperative with 12 other Artists

2023
Chromo, group pop-up show
Glasgow

Awards

2023
Nomination for the Freelands Award

2023
Glasgow Club Award

2023
James Nicoll McBroom Prize, which includes donating the winning piece of art to the GSA archives collection

2018
Runner-up in the Katie Miller Cass Art prize

Residencies

2023-2024
SWG3 graduate residency, Glasgow

Education

Glasgow School of Art BA (Hons)
2023

MFA Slade School of Art
2026

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