I’ve had a musical practice alongside painting and drawing for as long as I can remember. I began playing the saxophone at twelve, drawn particularly to the immediacy and expression of improvisation.

Since returning to London from New York in 2020, I’ve worked with an evolving ensemble of musicians and dancers exploring transdisciplinary improvisation - using sound, movement, and painting to open new creative pathways.

Collaborators have included:
Peter Nagle, Emily Suzanne Shapiro, Georgia Morgan Turner, Kuljit Bhamra, Steve Beresford, Alan Wilkinson, Magnus Villanueva, Alwynne Pritchard, Thorolf Thuestad, Douglas Benford, Lenna Pierce, Marcus Cummins, Samuel Hollis, Keisuke Matsui, Caroline Kraabel, Isadora Edwards, Anthony Osborne, Loz Speyer, Charlotte Keeffe, Rachel Musson, Abe Marnet, and dancers Petra Haller, Laura Colomban and Mariana Alviarez.

In these sessions, I use live painting as a form of graphic score - creating visual cues for musicians and dancers to respond to, while painting simultaneously in dialogue with their sound and movement. Each performance becomes an attunement between gesture, sound, and atmosphere.

‘No matter how clear cut the edge between objects and events may seem, there is always a perspective somewhere that reveals one to be also the other.’ - Peter Nagle, Phd Thesis final proof p.19, Here Comes Everybody: Strategies for a Transdisciplinary Creative Practice, 2024