Indigenous
The works investigate how combining patterns from indigenous cultures around the world can give rise to a new contemporary visual essence — a devotional language that still feels at home in the present.
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sattva
Artist in residence — GlogauAIR Berlin
Collections
Masks
Each work reimagines spiritual symbols as a mask, bringing traditions that rarely meet into one face: bright African colour, the turquoise of Hindu gurus, Greek symbology, side by side.
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Inter / Section patterns
Lines, colours and patterns pulled from ancient civilisations — Aztec, Mesopotamian and others — layered into three bands. Each band stands for a different state of consciousness, from the lightest, most fleeting marks down to the rawest and deepest. The series treats order itself as a language.
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Provoke
Text-based works that put words at the centre of the canvas. Short, sharp phrases meant to interrupt you — to make you stop, look twice, and notice what's actually going on beneath the surface of modern life.
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Sculpture & Installation
Work in progress. Prototypes currently in production.
About
Artist Statement
My practice begins with a daily discipline of meditation and drawing. I approach the studio as a space of listening — to the body, to memory, to place, and to the moment when a line, colour, or motif asks to emerge. Nothing is forced; I wait for it.
Pattern is at the centre of my paintings. I draw on ornaments from indigenous and ancient visual traditions, and I treat these not as decoration but as systems of knowledge in their own right. I don’t copy them. I take them apart and rebuild them through colour, composition, and space — searching for the common language beneath them.
The places I live and work in inform everything: the primal tension of Rio, the holding stillness of Bali, the monumental weight of London and Milan. The work balances intellect and transcendence — grounded in research and material process, yet open to intuition and the unknown. The resulting images are meditative, layered, and symbolic, locating the infinite within the tangible.
Only Sattva
The name only sattva comes from my belief that the spiritual world is primary, and that it must be nourished through attention and practice. In ancient Vedic tradition, sattva is one of the three fundamental qualities of nature, associated with clarity, harmony, balance, and light. It is the quality associated with meditation, lucidity, and inner integration.
In the words attributed to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi: “Only sattva is successful. Don’t look around to see the situation.” For me, this means that the deepest source of form is not outer circumstance, but inner coherence. I practice the Siddhi program as a devotion to cultivating this state, and my art practice becomes a bridge between that inner condition and visible form.