Launching 2026, this series captures the rhythm, light, and contradictions of urban life — the moments of stillness inside movement.
This forthcoming urban series is not about landmarks or postcards. It is about presence. I am drawn to cities as living organisms - places shaped by labour, weather, memory and movement. Each city carries its own light, its own rhythm, its own emotional tempo. I paint not what a city claims to be, but how it feels when you stand still long enough to listen.
Glasgow speaks in raw tones: honest, weathered, resilient. Its light breaks through cloud with effort, sharpening form and revealing truth without apology.
Havana moves to an older rhythm — colour softened by sun and time, music woven into daily life, light lingering rather than striking.
Malaga offers generosity of warmth and openness, where light dissolves edges and the city breathes at an unhurried pace.
Prague holds its beauty in restraint, dusk settling gently on stone, history shaping shadow as much as light.
London pulses relentlessly — fractured reflections, constant motion, lives intersecting and diverging in compressed time.
Liverpool opens outward, towards water and horizon, its light spacious, its rhythm communal, shaped by departure and return.
Across this series, light is never neutral. It carries mood, memory and weight. Streets are not empty spaces but stages of daily endurance, connection and solitude. Figures may appear — or may be implied — but human presence is always felt. These paintings are acts of listening. They seek the quiet moments within movement, the stillness beneath the noise, the pulse that continues long after the viewer has moved on. This is urban life as lived — imperfect, resilient, and alive.