In mid-2025, I began thrifting antique and vintage frames with the simple intention of pairing them with my watercolour art. Somewhere along the way, the idea of turning this into a series began to take shape. At first, I had around 25 frames, but 30 felt like a more rounded number, so I hunted down five more. And just like that, the biggest art series I’ve ever embarked on, ‘The Frame Project’, was born.

I didn’t begin with much of a plan, other than restoring the frames and filling them with my surreal watercolour paintings. But as I worked, the project began to reveal its own path. The first two frames, which I decided to join together as one, sparked the idea of creating an ongoing theme: each frame would hold an object-head character. This thread now runs throughout the series giving me 28 unique characters, followed by frame 29, a self-portrait, all leading up to the grand finale in frame 30. The largest frame of them all will host a ‘Mad Hatter’-inspired tea party, where all 28 characters and I will finally come together in one whimsical scene.

But it doesn’t end with the paintings. Alongside them, I’ll be bringing my passion for sculpture into the series by shaping these characters into three-dimensional forms. When the project is complete, both the framed paintings and sculptures will gather for a celebratory exhibition - an imaginative meeting of past and present, paper and clay, dream and reality.