My art explores a connection with the landscape and the environment. I combine the visual stories of place and memory.
About my art practice
Connections
My interests or themes within art have always been about exploring a connection with place and the environment. The natural world, its beauty and hostility and its paradoxes and contrasts inspire my work.
Crossings
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.
Creativity and environmental art
My artwork uses the evocative and subdued effects of layered colour and texture. Drawing or stitches are often added as a means of mapping and recording my responses to the landscape. The contact plant prints use only water and a mordant and the image of the plants develop unusual shapes and colourings and imprint like magic onto the paper.