This was painted in the midst of the disoriented time of global lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The figures are cooped up in a room that is brought to life by an amalgamation of patterns and colours. The painting bustles with familiar symbols and motifs of this strange time, conveying the experience of being socially isolated and kept in a cage; your own home.

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Acrylic paint and ink. 55 x 35cm.

This drawing was inspired by the tubes and railways in London and the waiting people have to do for them.

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Charcoal. 42 x 59 cm.

The Secret Garden was painted as a birthday present for my Mum and is inspired by the song thrush and the nature in our Cornish garden. The palette was created by mixing acrylics, inspired by the colours of St Ives, and those that I know she loves.

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Acrylics and pen. 50 x 50cm.

My mum holding a map up in our Airbnb in Italy whilst the sun lit it up.

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Photograph. 21 x 29cm.

I was interested in how black people have been depicted in western art and specifically in the colours that artists used for black skin tones. I decided to paint 12 girls at my school who all have very different tones of black skin, but who are described as black.

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Acrylics and oil paint. 180 x 106cm.

Inspired by Angelica Dass’ ‘Humanae’ that demonstrates the great amount of diversity we have in the world, my artwork portrays the lack of representation of races within the beauty industry. Symbols were made by the sgraffito technique with women of different races combined with jigsaw pieces to display how they are part of an incomplete puzzle, just like they are a part of the diverse world, yet they are still being excluded and not represented in the media.

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Sculpture. 20 x 30cm.

This was a collaborative piece using acrylics and mixed media. During a visit to the local Primrose Woods, Archie and Zac sketched the view and the edge of the woods then combined their sketches to produce this abstracted piece.

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Acrylic, inks and oil pastels. 48 x 48.

Sculpture, bone china and horse skull. 70 x 40cm.