My work centres on precious stones; for me, crystals encapsulate love, life, the universe and perhaps even everything. My paintings are explorations and celebrations of colour and light, and I see them as a contemporary response to memento mori still lifes, which invite us to consider the transience of life, the emptiness of wealth and the certainty of death.

The otherworldliness of these glassy, geometric forms sparks infinite imaginings. I find an equivalent magic in oil paint and use luminous colour to create intricate landscapes and new, unreachable worlds. These are metaphors for the fragility of the planet we inhabit, the human condition, and also a recognition of the potential joy in the present moment.

Encapsulated within a single object, we find our desire to accumulate treasures, tokens of love, displays of wealth and an understanding of our own and our planet's fragility and ultimate demise.