My Process
My artwork is a record of navigation, a way of mapping my internal landscape when traditional communication fails.
I am a late-diagnosed AuDHD (Autism and ADHD) artist. For years, I struggled with invisible barriers to making: sensory overload, executive dysfunction, and a lifetime of "masking" to fit in.
My current practice is the result of a deliberate, researched effort to dismantle these barriers and reclaim my creative voice.
Internal Reportage
My methodology
I use the term "internal reportage" to describe my making process. Rather than capturing a literal, physical view, my work documents a psychological terrain.
All my artworks are constructed in physical layers—mirroring the way our neurological pathways are built from layers of experience.
Intentional Prompt / Memory
Intuitive mark making/ Monoprinting
Physical Response & Texture
The
Finished 'Report'
Embodied Cognition
Grounded in the theory of Embodied Cognition, I learnt that the physical act of working at the easel is a direct extension of my thinking mind. I utilise physical movement and material interaction to process complex sensory information and emotions that I cannot easily put into words.
Bypassing the Critic
By adopting Donald Schön’s model of Reflective Practice, a cyclical studio process of doing, evaluating, and adapting, I've found that I can bypass my brain’s natural demand avoidance through intuitive techniques that limit conscious control, such as fast printing, doodling, and working with highly tactile materials.
The Pursuit of Flow
Informed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow Theory on losing self-consciousness during creation, I try to enter a meditative state when I'm working to quiet my hypervigilant analytical mind. This results in artwork that is a joyful expression of colour, texture, and presence.