About

I was inspired by Feliks Topolski, the prolific Expressionist painter and World War II artist who worked from a studio located in one of the arches beneath Hungerford Bridge, next to the Southbank Centre in London. My mother took me there regularly as a child so that I could practise my Polish. Little did she know that I was being profoundly influenced by his work.

I was captivated by the energy and movement he created, and by the way he captured the diversity and spirit of the people around him. While studying art at Central Saint Martins, I continued to visit the studio and was in awe of the vast murals and visual chronicles that covered its walls. The scale, dynamism, and expressive power of Topolski’s work left a lasting impression on me and continue to influence my own artistic practice today.

As a pastel artist I am drawn to the immediacy and vitality of portraiture. My work explores the energy and emotion captured in the human face, using bold, direct strokes and a vivid, dynamic colour palette. Each piece aims to convey movement and inner life—often through layers of gestural marks that blend realism with abstraction.

Inspired by the texture and intensity of soft pastels, I build portraits that are as much about feeling as form. The result is artwork that feels alive, expressive, and in motion—where the sitter’s presence and personality emerge through the rhythm of mark-making and colour contrasts.

My recent work, titled Threads of Becoming, is a series of pastel portraits that explore aging — not as decline, but as a gathering of life’s textures: the quiet beauty of time etched into skin and memory woven through colour.