The Dubel Prize 2025

My journey as an artist has been a long, often frustrating process of self-discovery. For years, I felt the need to embody a certain "artist" stereotype-deep, complex, driven by intense, conceptual narratives. I pushed myself to be more profound, to work from a brutally honest, biographical place, and to examine my own methodology, feeling I had to match this idealised image of what an artist "should" be. But what does that even mean? 

While completing my Bachelors degree in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, I wanted to find my truest, most natural self-to access a subconscious flow rather than a strained portrayal.

Escapism became a starting point, a way to forget my expectations and immerse myself fully. Instead of jumping straight into "considered" expression, I let the sensual and subconscious lead the way. Inspired by artists like Aida Tomescu, who draws on intense focus and process, I began with the visceral energy of raw colour. Then, I refined it through structure, creating compositions

that hold both spontaneity and intent.

In this process, the subconscious drives the creation-the palette captures it, as if untouched by the artist's conscious mind. Through intuition, movement, and method, I reach an outcome that feels purely instinctive. The repetition, layering, and rhythm mirror the back-and-forth within my mind. Each piece becomes part of a loop, the subconscious feeding the conscious, as they continuously

Intluence each other.