My practice explores what it means to live, grow, and become as a Black woman rooted in faith. I work primarily through painting, using my own experiences to reflect on how Christianity shapes the way I understand myself, experience my emotions, move through the world, and imagine my future. At the centre of my practice is a desire to understand what it means to live fully within my faith while also embracing the many things that make me who I am.
My paintings draw from everyday experiences and intimate moments—prayer, reflection, dressing, listening to music, resting, dreaming, reading, desire, pleasure, and aspiration. I am interested in how these ordinary experiences can reveal something about the way we construct and understand ourselves. Through figurative painting, I create spaces where a Black woman can be seen not only through struggle, but through her joy, curiosity, vulnerability, confidence, desire, and becoming.
Faith has become a sanctuary within my life and, consequently, within my practice. It has given me a space of peace and escape from the pressures and negativity of the world, while also teaching me to sit with my emotions, questions, and uncertainties. I am interested in this lived experience of faith: not simply Christianity as a belief system, but how faith enters the everyday and influences the way I feel, the decisions I make, the things I desire, and the possibilities I allow myself to imagine. My work does not seek to resolve these experiences, but to sit within them and give them form.
My relationship with faith is also connected to my understanding of myself as a Black woman. My earlier work emerged from experiences of colourism, exclusion, and struggling to understand my Blackness and the way I saw myself. Moving beyond those environments opened me to new spaces, people, ideas, and possibilities, allowing me to see myself and the world differently. This shift continues to shape my practice. While the Black figure remains central to my work, she is no longer positioned only through experiences of limitation or struggle. She is also dreaming, resting, celebrating, desiring, imagining, and taking up space.
Colour, boldness, and play are important to this shift. I am interested in creating work that reflects the fullness of being a young Black woman of faith—one who can be spiritual and expressive, ambitious and emotional, fashionable and faithful, serious and joyful. The colourful worlds surrounding my figures reflect an expanding sense of possibility and the spaces I am learning to inhabit.
Ultimately, my practice is a reflection of my growth: in my faith, in my emotional life, and in the way I see myself as a Black woman. Painting allows me to document this process while imagining what is still possible. Through the work, I share a life shaped by faith—not as something separate from the world, but as something that allows me to experience it more fully.