I am an artist and academic based in Edinburgh, UK. Framed by imaginaries of tourism and the tourist gaze, my paintings invite the viewer to engage with narratives around the visual culture of tourism. My work evolves through gradual layers of transparent oil paint and mediums, in series, over time, and across scales. I am influenced by material artefacts, public discourses, memories, imaginaries, and lived experiences. Photography, sightseeing, memory, and further visual practices and performances of tourism are core concerns. These mirror the mutual gaze and othering of tourists and locals, alongside the non-contextualised spaces and places of tourism. Visual imaginaries emerge through historical and contemporary lenses that reflect key discourses around tourism. Reflexive dialogues amongst the artist, subject, and viewer question how we gaze, with curiosity, as tourists and at tourism, as both viewers and fellow tourists. My recent series of paintings is concerned with tourism and leisure hauntologies, where past, present, and future, interplay with figures performing leisure in non-spaces. Concrete and intangible imaginaries, memories, artefacts, and experiences evoke the ‘no longer’, and ‘not yet’ through associations and memories of tourism. Spectral figures emerge and fade within uncertain places. They appear to play and perform for of the viewer, while returning a curious gaze.