I am a South African creative practitioner, illustrator and educator based in England. As a Senior Lecturer in Illustration at the University for the Creative Arts, I encourage students to explore illustration beyond conventional disciplinary boundaries.
I completed an MA in Visual Arts (Cum Laude) at Stellenbosch University, specialising in narrative illustration. My research culminated in an autobiographical graphic novel exploring childhood, memory, and family in a post-Apartheid South Africa, themes that continue to inform my interest in storytelling, identity and relational ways of understanding the world.
Alongside my teaching practice, I develop projects that bring together visual art, writing and material experimentation. My work is shaped both by my experience as a neurodivergent and highly sensitive person and by an ongoing engagement with traditional African philosophies that foreground interconnectedness, reciprocity and reverence for the living world.
I work across printmaking, painting, drawing, textiles and digital media. Recent projects have explored image-making, mark-making and poetry on silk and other transparent surfaces, using layering, fragmentation and texture to evoke memory, presence and ambiguity.
Conceptually, my practice sits at the intersection of ecospirituality, myth, posthumanism, decolonisation and postmodernism. Drawing on traditional African understandings of existence, I am interested in challenging human-centred narratives and exploring alternative relationships between people and the more-than-human world. Trees frequently appear in my work as embodiments of kinship, agency, memory and interconnected being.
Underlying my practice is a rejection of the consumerist, competitive and exploitative values that shape much of contemporary life. Rather than treating creativity as production, I embrace slowness, attentiveness and wonder. Making allows me to navigate complexity, deepen my understanding of the world, and cultivate meaningful connection. Through my work, I hope to create spaces for reflection and reciprocity while imagining ways of living that are rooted in kindness, humility and belonging.