I value creative expression, experimentation and connections to others through my work.

My process is playful and experimental and involves visual recording of ideas, experiences and memories across disciplines:

  • including drawing, painting, photography, video, walking

  • recording my experience and connections as a mother, daughter, sister, wife, artist, teacher, girl and woman

  • exploring my memory and memories and the inner world created by over 45 years of being a visual thinker

I have been developing lines of research exploring my family history, my relationship with my body and how this connects me to heritage, culture and biology. I am interested in how I think about and store these ideas within my mind and body and how I can recreate this in my work. I often use drawing and painting as a starting point for this exploration, developing ideas through experimentation with materials and processes.

I am now lucky enough to be working full-time as an artist with a studio space at Wysing Arts Centre.

I am an artist working with a range of materials to explore my lived experiences. I explore visual means of representing memory and memories, experience and related ideas in search of my own voice and visual language.

I am interested in tracking the decision-making and thinking processes in creating images and objects. The images and objects themselves testify to the process and I leave visual evidence of the process on show. The works record moments in time and the end point of decision making.

As part of this I am seeking to shorten the distance between my thinking/feeling and action of making. Using instinct, experience and embodied wisdom to guide gesture and making. Allowing the hand to be the thinking tool - treating making and thinking as equals.

An important part of this process is how I access memories and memory to guide the making. Following mental patterns, images and ideas to inform content of the image. These memories connect me to my lived experience, heritage, community and received ideas from these contexts. The images then explore and experiment with what this might be as an image external to my body. This image is then a point of connection between myself and a viewer.