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Creature Comforts is my latest series — a bold new body of work that continues my exploration of the line between playfulness and unease. I’ve always been drawn to that space where the familiar starts to feel strange, and in this collection I push that idea even further.
The series features 12 portrait paintings, each depicting a human-animal hybrid — not as a disguise, but as a reflection. Through these figures, I try to reveal the primal instincts, desires, and raw emotions that sit just beneath the surface of the civilised self. I’m interested in how those instincts show up in subtle ways — a look, a gesture, a feeling — and how they connect us to something much older and wilder within ourselves.
While the imagery is bright and vivid, there’s always an undercurrent of tension. I want the work to feel both mischievous and unsettling — playful on the surface but with something deeper quietly stirring underneath. With Creature Comforts, I invite viewers to confront that tension between who we are and what we suppress, and to recognise a bit of the creature that lives inside us all.

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