Unusual Art for Unusual People
Ufy is a contemporary visual artist who transforms surreal beings into powerful reflections of human emotion.
With a degree in MRes Psychology and experience working with children and young people with special needs and mental health challenges, Ufy’s work explores the depths of the human mind. Using expressive brushwork, vivid colour, and atmosphere, the paintings prioritise raw emotion over realism, translating inner experiences into visual form.
The work can feel haunting, tender, vulnerable, and deeply human.
By giving shape to emotions through surreal portraiture, Ufy invites you to connect, reflect, and find recognition in the uncanny.
Dreams & Nightmares Exhibition
Boomer Gallery
I’m incredibly grateful to share that two of my paintings have been selected for the Dreams & Nightmares exhibition at Boomer Gallery. These original works are deeply personal to me and will be exhibited publicly for the very first time. I truly can’t wait for you to see them in person.
If these paintings speak to you, there will also be an opportunity to purchase one-of-a-kind art prints at the gallery.
You’re invited to join us for the opening event on Friday, the 16th of January. It will be a special evening celebrating powerful, emotional, and unique artwork.
Echoes
I’d like to introduce you to Echoes. It feels surreal that the painting chosen for my first exhibition is also the one that carried me through some of the hardest moments of my life.
When I painted Echoes years ago, it felt like a lifeline, something to hold onto when words and clarity were out of reach. This work is deeply personal to me, and I’m endlessly grateful for painting always being there as a place of healing, reflection, and survival. I could never have imagined it would one day lead me to exhibiting at the Boomer Gallery.
Echoes explores how trauma lives not only in our waking minds, but in our dreams. While awake, we learn to suppress and avoid painful memories. In sleep, those defenses dissolve. Nightmares pull us back into spaces we may not yet have the strength to face, blurring the line between past and present. This painting sits in that liminal space, asking whether these visions are acts of cruelty, or the mind and soul’s attempt to process and heal what daylight cannot.
Restless Visions
Restless Visions is connected to Echoes in its exploration of vicarious trauma.
The quiet, often unseen suffering carried by those who love and support individuals who have been deeply hurt. To love in this way is to bear witness, and that witness can leave its own imprint on the mind.
At night, the subconscious can be cruel. Worries, fears, and imagined possibilities surface, replaying not what happened, but what could have happened, weaving their own fictitious nightmares. These visions feel evil in their intensity, convincing in their realism, holding us captive until waking breaks the spell. Yet within this darkness, Restless Visions speaks to the power of love. Even when these nightmares feel unbearable, it is love itself that gives rise to the suffering and ultimately carries the potential for healing.
The painting holds this contradiction: love as both the source of vulnerability and the means of restoration.
Opening on Friday, 16th of January from 6pm to 9pm at Boomer Gallery
Everyone is welcome. No RSVP! 
— Surreal Sci-Fi Illustration
Client: Annie Chown
Medium: Ink and Japanese watercolours
Year: 2025
Commissioned by sound artist Annie Chown, Eat the Rich is a surreal sci-fi illustration created to visually represent her immersive soundscape across YouTube, SoundCloud, her website, and other platforms.
Set in a distant galaxy, the piece imagines a dystopian restaurant where giant cyborgs feast on the wealthy, merging dark satire with futuristic fantasy. Using ink and Japanese watercolours, I brought this world to life with expressive detail, fluid linework, and vivid contrast, capturing both the grotesque and the beautiful.
Proceeds from art print sales are donated to a charity providing direct support to a family in Gaza.
Eat the Rich
This project reflects my passion for collaborative storytelling, transforming sound and concept into distinctive visual identity.
Christmas Collection
A touch of winter wonder, painted to bring joy into your home
Discover a limited series of original artworks inspired by the stillness, warmth, and wonder of winter. Each piece in this Christmas Collection is handcrafted with Kuretake Japanese watercolours and ink, capturing delicate seasonal moments.
Created with intention and joy, these works offer collectors a chance to bring home something truly unique for the holidays: art that feels intimate, atmospheric, and full of quiet magic. Whether you’re seeking a meaningful gift or a timeless addition to your own collection, these pieces are designed to bring warmth and delight to the season and beyond.
New collection
One Coloured is a series of watercolour portraits that explores the power of simplicity.
Each painting is created using only a single colour, yet every character emerges as a unique, fully realized being.
Through minimal brushstrokes and careful use of tone, Ufy transforms restraint into complexity, revealing emotion, personality, and depth in forms that seem deceptively simple.
This collection celebrates the beauty of singular expression, proving that even in one colour, a world of feeling can be conveyed.