Artist statement
I make work to understand my place in the world. It’s a constant seeking, questioning and testing of humanity through many different media, substrates and experiences which mark my journey to understanding. I seek to locate myself as an artist/mother/teacher and widow, the latter involving a long mental health recovery. Line is my language but alongside that I focus on making work that responds to all my senses to really embed myself in the physical world. Hypervigilance, as a symptom of trauma, makes me acutely aware of my environment and I seek to transmute this through my practise by way of expression, vibrant colour and dynamic mark making. Recent work includes painterly responses to an archive of family analogue photographs and large physical drawings focusing on the body as a vessel for holding pain and enabling release.