I am a visual artist, graphic designer, and photographer based in Surrey, UK. I work with both digital and analogue photography, using digital tools to enhance the intended mood and message.
The elements that influence my projects stem from personal experience – living abroad, growing up behind the Iron Curtain, my Eastern European background, and my cultural leanings. I’m inspired by both literature and visual art – the dreamlike narratives of Murakami, Bruno Schulz, and Kafka, as well as the masters of magical realism.
The elements that influence my projects stem from personal experience – living abroad, growing up behind the Iron Curtain, my Eastern European background, and my cultural leanings. I’m inspired by both literature and visual art – the dreamlike narratives of Murakami, Bruno Schulz, and Kafka, as well as the masters of magical realism.
Visually, my aesthetic is shaped by the surreal visions of René Magritte, Rodney Smith, Hans Bellmer, Tadeusz Kantor, and probably countless others I’m not even consciously aware of.
My photographs have been exhibited in group exhibitions in London, Windsor, and Madrid. In 2019 and 2021, my portraits were selected as winners of the Portrait of Britain competition, organised by the British Journal of Photography and JCDeceaux.
Artist Statement
My work explores the fragile line between perception and reality, between what is seen and what is felt. Through experimental portraiture and conceptual photography, I aim to question visual certainty and challenge the camera’s claim to truth. Often working in monochrome, and drawing on both digital and analogue processes (while deliberately excluding AI), I construct images that blur, layer, or distort, embracing ambiguity over resolution.
Themes of memory, identity, and absence run through much of my work. Figures appear half-seen or obscured, more like echoes than individuals, suggestive rather than declarative. A blurred face, a painted square, a fleeting gesture, each becomes a site of tension between presence and disappearance. I am less interested in documenting a subject than in evoking the trace they leave behind: a flicker, a feeling, a fragment. I aim to create images that invite pause, a space for wonder, doubt, and emotional reflection.
Born behind the Iron Curtain and shaped by time spent across cultures, my perspective is rooted in a sense of displacement and layered experience. My portraits are not confessions; they are invitations, open-ended and unresolved, like memories still in the making.
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Andree Allard, Danielle Ancona, Elisheva Avivi, Carlyn Beccia, Boston Intuitive, Sharen Breidert, Carol Canfield, Andrew Chester, George Condos, Deborah Crouse, Christina Dahl, Diana D'Itri, Ryan Durham, Kara Ferguson, Sandra Flory, Roger Guffey, Jane Gutteridge, Her Grace Reads, Instant Rain Designs, Jasmin Italiano, Stephan Izay, Zak Jones, Patrick Kuegle, Louis Nel, Colleen McKinney, Marc Meeus, Mirage Technology Group, Martin Mueller, James Murn, Nightingale-Thoth Press, Tilo Nitschke, Ann Norman, Rochelle Oberholse, Darryl Odom Jr, Open Mind Therapy, William Oxer, Charly Pache, Maria Paz, Perfect Strokes LLC, Provecho Inc., Beth Reilly, Margaret Richardson, Sage Yoga and Healing Arts, Andrea Scattolini, Enrique Rosas Soto, Stefwithanf, James Stockton, Studio Also, Anete Tabune, Rebecca Tate, Vancouver Women's Writing Courses, Jose Antonio Vazquez, Victoria Vasquez, Visionary Quest Records, Sara Castellanos Violero, Joni Webb, Victoria D. Weisfeld, Nurit Wachholder, Wigreports (wigreports.com), Anthony Witte, Shelly Woods.