I’m a Melbourne-based contemporary visual artist working primarily in oils and watercolour.

My work combines classical painting techniques with imaginative realism and expressionist elements. I’m drawn to figures, faces, flowers, water and light, often bringing these forms together in constructed scenes that feel recognisable without being entirely literal.

I trained for eight years in drawing, oil painting and watercolour under Ukrainian artist Margarita Krivitsky, with further fine art study in Florence. That classical foundation allows me to work more expressively while retaining a strong understanding of anatomy, composition, colour and form.

My artistic practice is centred on the theme, “What We Carried”, an exploration of the experiences that shape us and become integrated into who we are.

I’m interested in the things people hold, release, remember and transform. My figures are often quiet, self-contained or emerging through nature. Water can represent breath, freedom and surrender. Flowers can carry ideas of memory, fragility, and growth.

My perspective has also been shaped by a life lived across different worlds: art and law, intellectual rigour and physical discipline, personal identity and public responsibility. Alongside my artistic practice, I maintain a senior legal career, hold a PhD in the humanities and train and compete recreationally in Olympic weightlifting,

These different parts of my life have taught me about discipline, vulnerability, observation, strength and the complexity of human experience.

Painting is the place where I feel most honest and free.

I want to create work that people can live with and continue discovering. My hope is that viewers pause, look again and recognise something of their own story within the image.

Ultimately, my art is about the understanding that everything we’ve carried has helped shape who we’re becoming.