“Beyond the fundamental understanding of painting as a two-dimensional visual language for expressing ideas, emotions, and aesthetic aims, the compelling question for me is the enduring motivation to create. I find this drive deeply rooted in an internal dialogue centred on my own existence and its inherent strangeness. For me, painting serves as a visual response to an underlying existential absurdity, a perhaps unappealing truth that paradoxically fuels my persistent return to the practice.”