Inks and Mixed Media.

My artwork combines the visuals and stories of place and memory. I am fascinated by the outlines and shapes I see in the landscape. I look for signs of the passage of time and the fragility in things, through their breakdown and evolution from weathering and ageing. I do not wish to reproduce the landscape itself, but what I feel and experience. I aim for an abstract representation having no desire to faithfully or literally reproduce it. Instead, I aim to provide the viewer with an artwork they can lose themselves in and discover their own sense of quietness and stillness.

I invoke place in the work by often using simple lines and shapes as well as textile practises. I ground the work in the everyday of human history, adding weight to the understanding that we should not think of ourselves as set apart from the world we live in.

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