I’m a South African painter based in Cape Town. I paint the ocean and the people who move through cities. My best-known work is the Ocean Series — great whites, whales and dolphins surfacing through shoals of neon fish, built up in thick layers of acrylic and spray paint. Alongside the canvases I draw: fast ink studies of figures and street life, made on paper and on the spot. I also paint portraits and interiors when a face or a room won’t leave me alone.

The work is physical. I layer colour, spray, and scrape back, and I let the marks stay honest rather than tidy. The neon fish and drifting plastics in the ocean paintings are deliberate — I want the vibrancy of living things and our human footprint in the same frame, so the beauty and the damage can’t be pulled apart.

I trained as a designer (BA Visual Communication Design, Cape Town University) and run a studio, Digital Brother. Painting is where I step off the grid — where I get to play, take risks and make my mark. I paint because it’s how I think, and how I become more myself. Every piece is an original, and signed prints are available on request.