I am a South African artist living in New Zealand. I am a migrant.

I have lived across hemispheres since leaving South Africa for Aotearoa New Zealand in 1999, and that experience of moving between places, lives and identities has shaped the way I see and make art.

I am a storyteller, a traveller and, perhaps inevitably, a shapeshifter. My paintings explore memory, place, belonging and the things we carry with us. Sometimes a story is recognisable; sometimes it is reduced to colour, structure, fragments and feeling. I don't see abstraction and storytelling as opposites. For me, the story determines the language the painting needs.

My work has moved through many chapters — from representational storytelling to abstraction, collage and constructed elements, through years of building community as the director and curator of Deciduus Gallery, and now back into the studio with a renewed sense of freedom.

I am interested in the whole journey rather than a single fixed style. The places I've lived, the people I've loved, the houses I've called home, the memories I carry from South Africa and the life I've made in New Zealand are all part of the story.

There is still a lot of it left to tell.