My art practice is primarily printmaking, creating abstract landscapes.  I intuitively use intense colours, with organic forms to evoke a poetic visual that is strongly emotive, pulling the viewer from the material to the ethereal.

The print medium allows me to keep overprinting, adding layers to create a deeper narrative, transforming parts of the whole to find a balance.  I tend to work intensely for a period of time, then I take time out to re-charge the inner world and absorb the outer one, until I feel ready to explore that connection further.

I am drawn to making things, using tools to draw, cut or scrape, creating shapes, manipulating them to inform my abstracted stories.  I prefer to work mostly in monotype, each piece being a unique expression.  I use energetic mark-making and the contrast of adding and subtracting strong colours to create light, tone and form.

I often combine the monotype with other printmaking techniques, such as drypoint, linocut and lithography to add different focal points.  I occasionally take this way of working into drawing using watercolours, ink and layering collage, which satisfies my eclectic nature and allows a different way to record my innermost thoughts and emotions. 

I take inspiration from the vibrational energetic influences I find in nature, the signs and symbols of science, ancient traditions and cultures, as well as my practice of Nichiren Buddhism.  I believe the universe to be a living, evolving entity, and that all of life can be viewed from the aspect of the microcosm and the macrocosm. 

Seeing my art as a view into the deeper parts of my psyche, allows me to better understand the interconnectedness of everything and communicate a calm story balancing the overwhelm I have a tendency to feel as a sensitive person.  The theme and therefore the naming of each piece, comes later when the work is completed and I then discover what it’s true nature is. The intention is to share my vision, that is unique to me, and connect with the human spirit in others.