Collections
The work develops in connected bodies rather than isolated pieces. Each collection begins with a particular landscape, question or period of sustained observation.
John Muir Country Park / Estuary
This developing body of work is rooted in repeated walks through the tidal estuary and woodland at John Muir Country Park. Lines of trees softened by mist, layers of silt, tidal channels, fallen
material and shifting light become starting points for abstract paintings.
Returning to the same place has changed the way I work. Instead of searching for new landscapes, I am interested in what becomes visible through familiarity: subtle changes, recurring forms and the emotional connection that grows through sustained attention.
The estuary also connects to landscapes I knew growing up. In these paintings, present observation and remembered landscape begin to overlap.
Intervals — Tracing Time
Intervals grew from an interest in pauses: the spaces between events, the moment after change and before something new has fully formed.
Layered papers, ink and fragmented marks suggest pathways, channels and partial memories. Surfaces are built and disrupted so that earlier decisions remain visible beneath later ones, echoing the way landscapes — and memories - accumulate over time.
Regeneration
Regeneration developed through repeated visits to John Muir Country Park following the damage caused by Storm Arwen. The work considers disruption, recovery and the complicated relationship between natural processes and human intervention.
Layered paper, fluid paint, light and repeated marks became ways of thinking about a landscape in transition: damaged but changing, managed but still unpredictable, carrying visible traces of what had happened before.
Thoughts of Home
Thoughts of Home explored home as something carried through memory, material and connection rather than contained by a single building.
Layered and translucent materials, fragments of imagery and collaborative work considered how places, objects and personal histories become carriers of belonging. The project extended an ongoing interest in the way memory is held, reconstructed and given material form.