“ I have found that when I become passionate about a particular activity it normally offers the opportunity to drop into a deep form of present moment awareness. I started skating when I was 13 and this was my first drop into a pastime that provided creative expression within movement. I always wanted to be an artist but was never particularly adept in the traditional sense. This discipline led me into all other modalities and ultimately led me to Yoga.

Movement without rules, attachments or linear goals is where I find my presence. Whether it is coldwater, yoga , Slacklining , skating - Direct access to, and the cultivation of flowstate brings me deep joy and gratitude. There is something so powerful in finding peace and equanimity in challenging conditions. It translates directly into finding more peace in your day to day existence even when there is instability and chaos. “

“Body printing started when I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. When the symptoms started, I was still painting very large canvases which became very tiring for me to complete so using my body as the brush, I could make pieces that didn’t exert too much energy… this changed, but so did I.

At the beginning it was messy and I would spend hours cleaning toxic paints from my body but the process was so enjoyable that everything in my life changed. It was an opportunity to get lost. Spending time creating non toxic pigments, Crushing minerals and mixing them together with natural oils to create the perfect consistencies to print with. My body became stronger and more resilient as I became more adventurous with how I laid my body on the paper. It became a flow. Something intuitive.

Combining this with 3D scanning and printing made these movements into sculpture and using these technologies with my long term collaborator Francesco Ciro, we are able to create extensions of my limbs to change the shape of the body when printed on paper. When making these scans I go further into a medative state as the positions while printing must be held for scanning up to a minute. So into a trance I dive, breathing into the pain that my symptoms hold on my body. For me it’s all about the process.

I always found inspiration in armour from ancient civilisations and mythology, a warlike covering of my body I could face the world with. I find my space in travelling to ancient places and recently studied the work of cy twombly at the Getty museum in LA who transformed these landscapes into something special and contemporary. Everything started from a section of a poem on the wall of the Al Kareem mosque in Morocco which read : come ye, eat from the apple tree of knowledge, for with knowledge you can learn who you want to be, in the future.”

'"I first started skating in the winter lockdown when there was nothing to do and no one to see and it felt a bit like the world was ending. I was living right next to the beautiful Burgess Park which happens to have some quite deliciously smooth pathways and a big rectangular patch or fairly skatable, relatively level rectangular area that was ideal for a beginner skater.

I would go and always meet someone new, another new pandemic skater, who could show me things they'd picked up. Over a short time I had made so many new and amazing friends in this watering hole for this beautiful, blossoming, community. Thank you Burgess Park Skate Community!

I collected little moves and skills, blast music from my speaker and just drill. The repetition and focus would take me into a trance and I could last for hours in the bitter cold, collecting other skaters over time and then teaching them. It provided meditation, movement, breath, community, connection, fresh air, sunlight, nature, the delicious dopamine high of learning something new, the endorphins from all dancing. Oxytocin from making new friends. Purpose from sharing what I’d learnt.

 I fell over a lot but my body seemed to just bounce. It was a lifesaver in that dark, lonely winter and has continued to be a lifejacket that carries me through the turbulence. 

Now the community is thriving. Skaters from North South East West London come together on a weekly basis at the new rink @flippers and still meet to go one mammoth street skates, taking over the streets of London. Loads of people coming together to meditate on 8 wheels."

‘‘The first instrument I approached when I was a teenager was the trumpet because of my dad’s passion for jazz. My lack of patience and my love for punk and rock brought me to play the guitar and join a band. Later in life, I developed a deep passion for singing and exploring the potential of my voice. I created different projects influenced by soul, jazz and funk music. Overtime, instead of pursing a career, music became my refuge.

I love to think that instruments have something to say and that it can only be said when we offer ourselves as a means. When I pick up my guitar I don’t play a song right away, instead I let the guitar guide me somewhere. When I’m in that moment I’m fully involved, everything around me dissolves and becomes still. I get wrapped up in the bubble. I feel present and equanimous and there is no expectation or attachment to the outcome.

1 A song I can play on a loop for hours: Weird Fishes \ Arpeggi by Radiohead

2. An album I’m really attached to: 22, A Million by Bon Iver

3. A song I can listen to on a loop for hours: Into the Ether by Leif Vollebekk’’