I am exploring the portrait... what is it that makes a portrait beyond a simple physical resemblance – which after all, can be caught in a photograph. This series of works is of my husband in his role as father to our two young girls. As a full-time wheelchair user he can be set apart as different and some people may think he is not capable of being a great dad… I hope this series of works will change people’s attitude.

Just went down a little rabbit hole of CONCRETE paintings! I was looking up the artists that I am exhibiting alongside; Craig Smith and Steven Baddeley, and I stumbled across a South African artist called Craig Smith that works in CONCRETE. Mind blown. I’m not sure why I’m so drawn to it but I think it’s because its gritty, raw, and tactile… and unexpected. Smith uses it with charcoal, as does Leszek Skurski whose work I was drawn to also which features small black figures in an abstract landscape. Another Australian artist Ben Parker works exclusively in concrete, some in natural greys, others in colour, all abstract.