About me

I'm Tabi, a painter working on an ongoing series of portraits. The name 'Highly Likely' plays on the double meaning of likeness and probability, referring both to portraiture as representation, and to something that feels uncertain, conditional, or in flux.

I’m interested in what happens when a familiar image - something personal, often informal - is translated, reduced, and rebuilt into something less certain.

I studied Fine Art Painting in Brighton, where I experimented with socially engaged art and installation using mixed media, while maintaining a consistent focus on portraiture and abstract expressionist painting. This continues to inform the work, particularly in its emphasis on gesture, materiality, and the instability of the image.

Most pieces begin with photographs submitted by others. These images carry a kind of built-in meaning: memory, attachment, identity. I use them as a point of departure rather than something to preserve, stripping back detail, reworking form, and allowing space for distortion. The result sits between recognition and abstraction.

I’m less interested in perfect representation than in how an image changes through the process - what remains, what disappears, and what feels altered when viewed again.

Alongside ongoing work, I take on a limited number of commissions. Each piece is developed individually from the source material, following the same approach.

You can find out more about the process on Instagram, TikTok, and Substack under 'highly likely art'.