Artist Statement
Fragments of place, habitation, memory are ideas I engage with.
My studio research is based on and inspired by nature and landscape – its seaforms, landforms habitats and history. I have always enjoyed walking and the natural materials I collect on these wanderings are reconfigured in 3D sketches to discover new relationships and explore how inner perceptions connect to an external environment. Exploring the diverse temporal and spatial connections of these other realities reinforces and supports the rest of my arts practice which includes mixed media sculpture, installation, collage and artists moving image. I work intuitively, allowing ideas and materials to evolve within the structure of each project.
Artist Bio
At Art college my main focus was the human figure drawing and sculpting in the life room. Later a residency gave me the opportunity to spend time researching and walking in a very special but also man-made landscape – an old industrial claypit which had become filled with water, surrounded by plants and much visited by local wildlife. Walking and becoming immersed in a landscape opens up new perspectives – exploring the human in relation to nature and the environment, attentive to its interconnections, following ‘a path of observation’ that examines our placement but also dis-placement in the world around us. Working collaboratively and also within artists groups has been part of my practice and I have undertaken residencies, exhibitions and film festivals nationally and internationally.
