ABOUT ME

I’m Loz, a mixed-media fine artist working with abstraction, process, and materials as a way of exploring emotion, identity, and lived experience. My work is led by making rather than planning — I’m interested in what happens when I let go of control and allow colour, texture, speed, and chance to shape the outcome.

 

Before studying fine art, I studied conservation science in the Lake District, and that background still runs through everything I do. Sustainability isn’t just a theme in my work — it’s part of how I make decisions. I regularly reuse canvases and found materials, not only to reduce waste, but because working with what already exists pushes me away from perfection and towards experimentation. The materials come with their own histories, textures, and limits, and I like letting those things lead.

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I’m currently studying at Master’s level, where my practice has developed into something much more process-driven and research-led. Rather than seeing research as separate from my art, I treat the act of making itself as a way of understanding the world. Through experimenting with scale, movement, texture, and speed, I use abstraction as an alternative form of communication — especially as someone who is disabled and neurodivergent. My work gives me a way to express things I often can’t put into words.

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A big part of my practice is about accessibility and sensory experience. I don’t want my work to only be something you look at from a distance — I’m interested in how it feels, how it occupies space, and how people can connect with it physically as well as emotionally. This has led me to move beyond the canvas and into more sculptural and installation-based work, where texture, interaction, and environment become just as important as the image itself.

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My artistic journey hasn’t been a straight line. I started out obsessed with making as a kid, took a detour into environmental science, and found my way back to art during the pandemic — a time that gave me space to rethink what I actually wanted from my creative life. Since graduating from University Centre Rotherham, I’ve gone on to exhibit my work, including co-curating 'Ultraviolet' and 'Exodus' exhibitions.

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Now, as I continue my Master’s, I’m focused on developing work that sits somewhere between reflection and play — pieces that are messy, honest, sensory, and open-ended. I’m interested in challenging ideas of what art should look like, how it should be experienced, and who it should be accessible to.

 

For me, abstraction isn’t about removing meaning — it’s about making space for more of it.

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