Energy (2025 - Ongoing)

My recent paintings draw on memories of watching cartoons and anime as a child. I am interested in feelings of wonder, triumph and explosive excitement. Rather than characters or narrative, I focus on the fleeting visual effects used to depict energy, action and force in 1990s Japanese anime and American superhero cartoons.

Working from memory, I reconstruct energy blasts that originally appeared on screen for less than a second. These recollections become sketches that gradually develop into a personal vocabulary of energetic forms, which underpin my paintings.

I use paint and laser-cut steel because they transform the ephemeral into the permanent. Brush marks reintroduce the human hand to otherwise graphic, digitally inspired forms, while the physicality of paint enhances the sense of explosive force. The Energy series holds onto moments that were never designed to last, transforming split-second animated effects into physical objects that can be experienced slowly.