Antonia's work is grounded in gesture, intimacy, and emotional reflection. Her etchings — quietly intense, often surreal — centre the human figure as a vessel for feeling, memory, and transformation. Working predominantly in black and white, she renders scenes of solitude, tenderness, and quiet strangeness, capturing the emotional residue of everyday life.

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Originally trained in fashion and design, Antonia’s early path was guided by structured drawing and technical disciplines. She began her creative life as a child sketching on the walls of her family’s flat, and continued through formal drawing classes in her early teens. While she initially pursued dressmaking, she quickly discovered that her real desire lay not in garments, but in visual storytelling. Her practice shifted decisively toward painting and portraiture, and eventually settled into printmaking as a way to work with form and immediacy.​​

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Antonia’s current focus is on small-scale etchings. Their intimate size allows her to create with immediacy, yet depth. The limited palette — often just black ink on white paper — becomes a deliberate constraint. She uses it to explore shape, rhythm, and abstraction, layering forms that might evoke dream sequences or private memories. Despite their monochrome palette, her prints often feel vibrant — not in colour, but in composition and tone. “They come across quite colourful,” she says, “even though they’re not.”​

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Much of her work is intuitive, emerging from a personal place: emotion, mood, or a moment of music. Music is central to her process — a way of accessing nonverbal, emotional spaces. Her prints are frequently responses to songs or lyrics that resonate with her state of mind. This sensibility shows in her recurring themes of introspection, companionship, and isolation. Her female figures float, recline, twist into each other, or lie in tangled stillness — not posed, but present.

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Inspiration comes from both the classical and contemporary — from the anatomical precision of Michelangelo and the expressiveness of Van Gogh, to the raw, body-focused work of Jenny Saville. What links these influences is not style but sincerity: a desire to see and be seen through the physical.

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Her etching process is slow, methodical, and absorbing. Each plate demands hours of labour — scratching, inking, printing, revising — until the image feels right. It’s a meditative practice, one that allows her to make work regularly, with care and focus, without the emotional exhaustion that can accompany larger painting projects.

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Currently, Antonia is working on a large autobiographical painting — a self-portrait with her child that reflects on her experiences as both artist and mother. ​

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If her work could speak, she believes it would say:
“Moving from one place to another.”
A simple message — but one that captures the quiet shifts, the emotional pivots, and the subtle transformations that underpin all her work.

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