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With my art  I combine the visuals and stories of place and memory using contact prints with plants and found objects. Drawing or stitches are then added as a means of mapping and recording my responses to the landscape. I work with cloth, paper, windfall plants and leaves, local weeds and parasitic plants, minerals and water to create the image. 

I  use stitch with a sense of peace and tranquillity. It is a slow and meditative process and the stitch lines represent the journey and my crossings over the land. I want to narrow the distance between the natural forms and what I am creating. It is through the layering of different procedures that I am able to make my own model of a particular landscape.

In my art I am exploring a connection with place and the environment, which now is in Jervis Bay with its the ever-changing colours and backdrops.  My inspiration of place can use the beaches and shorelines of the bay, the forests of the National Parks.  Though I still have a fondness for the mountains that are the skyline of Canberra.