Artist Statement 

My art practice is about my personal experience of the fragility of life; exploring the nature of domestic warmth and the outside risks that can threaten to destroy it. I explore memories of the domestic home, love and loss through storytelling with childhood objects, dreams and my imagination. The playful aspect of toys and puppets can be ambiguous; at once reassuring and yet unsettling, they serve to emphasise the owner’s absence. And as often in life, things are not always as they appear to be on the surface and something else can be going on behind the scenes. I aim to capture the feeling and atmosphere of those objects or memories, not only at that moment in time but also for what they represented in the past. Fragments of haunting memories.

I explore my ideas through drawing, painting and intaglio printmaking. I use traditional gesso panels that I make by hand and build up the oil paint in layers to reveal the imagery with a worn, aged character. 


“If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. “
Quote from ‘Middlemarch’ by George Eliot.