studio
Poppy began as a studio project exploring how art might shift and evolve within a space.
Working with hand-painted timber panels, I build modular painted compositions that can be rearranged, expanded and re-composed over time. Each panel begins as a small painting, carrying its own colour, surface and gesture before becoming part of a larger work.
Through this system of movable parts, I’m interested in what happens when a composition is not fixed — when it can shift, settle and evolve quietly within a space.
This is part of the idea behind Poppy: a composition that can continue evolving long after it leaves the studio, shaped quietly over time by the person who lives with it.
what inspired poppy?
Some ideas don’t arrive fully formed.
They return quietly, again and again, until you make space for them.
poppy began that way.
For years, I painted, rearranged objects, lived with colour and paid close attention to how a home changes over time. I loved making spaces feel settled - but I had limited wall space, very little storage and a restless imagination. I was curious and wishing things could shift more easily. That art could move. That a piece could be stored without disappearing. That objects could adapt, rather than demand permanence.
poppy grew from that curiosity.
I drew on the familiar experiences of creative play - blocks, tiles, puzzles, repeated shapes, edges and boundaries - not just as nostalgia, but as a language we instinctively understand. I began experimenting with paint, timber and magnets, looking for a way art could exist as both object and experience.
What emerged was a modular, magnetic art system where colour, memory and touch live side by side.
Each work is made from individual hand-painted timber panels - small pieces that can be held, rearranged and reconfigured over time. Nothing is fixed. No single composition is final. The work invites you to participate quietly, to trust your eye and to let things settle where they feel right.
Rooted in small-batch making and slow craft, every timber panel begins as an original artwork, then becomes part of a larger system designed to support change - not novelty, but evolution.
poppy is my invitation to you:
pick out painted pieces yourself, follow your instincts and create art for your home that’s allowed to shift, pause and belong - again and again.