"Drawing on the language of 17th century Dutch art with it’s readymade gravitas - mortality, fragility, ostentation - I have been staging narratives using digital collage, photography, kitsch objects, fairies and animated vegetables, investigating the tension between high and low art.
My cultural heritage is reflected in the paintings, a blend of Polish exotica and Cockney humour, which influences the work both atmospherically, emotively and aesthetically. Lockdown 2020 gave me time to take an in-depth look at the flora and fauna of the domestic garden and to reevaluate it as subject matter alongside art historical sources. I now grow and photograph my own flowers, using the bouquet as a stage or backdrop, and intertwine my daily living with my art practice."