Artist Statement In my ongoing series, 'Caught Between', I explore the tension between memory and identity; how our recollections shape, distort, and inform the way we see ourselves and others. This series emerged from a personal impulse to revisit fleeting, emotionally charged moments and to investigate the unreliable lens of recollection. Each work captures a figure mid-thought, mid-gesture, or mid-glance - suspended in a space that is both familiar and unreachable.

Through vibrant, sometimes jarring colour choices and expressive mark-making, I aim to evoke the emotional residue of remembering. These portraits are not exact likenesses, but rather emotional impressions, filtered through the haze of nostalgia, longing, and re-interpretation. The figures are sometimes fragmented, blurred, or abstracted, suggesting the unreliable nature of memory and the multiplicity of truths that can coexist within a single recollection.

The act of painting becomes a form of introspection; a process of piecing together what was felt, rather than what was fact. By ‘looking backward,’ I invite both myself and the viewer to reflect inwardly: to consider how memory defines our present relationships, and how perception is constantly shifting in response to time, emotion, and experience.