I spent eighteen years as a commercial artist in film and television, before painting full-time since my first solo exhibition at Saatchi & Saatchi Gallery in 2012.

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Being of dual heritage has always inspired my creativity. My mother is Māori, my father Greek. A mountain village above the Mediterranean, and a river mouth where Tainui, Ngāti Tīpa meets the sea. Both homelands shaped me before I ever picked up a brush.

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I work from a small studio on the Waikato coast, south of Auckland, painting on canvas, board, and paper with resin, acrylic, and glitter. My work layers indigenous iconography, at times religious signs and symbols, and storytelling, built through an expressive, gestural style of mark-making. My process leans into the world of whakapapa and genealogies - places where we came from and where we are going. Every work has a starting point, a middle, and an end. The layers of resin, built up and edited along the way, become their own genealogy and whakapapa in the process.

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I’m drawn to the space between subtlety and contrast , evocative colours, bright and dark, and imagery I connect with. The challenge is always finding harmony between the layers.

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Painting has been my journey for three decades, and it is a ritual.

Painting for me is the sacred and the sublime and a conversation between memories of past experiences, the present moment, and the unknown future.