“Landscape on the soles of my feet: contours on the tips of my fingers”
I have a keen sense of place, which has been key to my studying natural sciences as well as to my development as an artist. I have walked many miles at home and abroad, capturing on camera things I sense and see. I process the resulting images using paper, fabric and stitch.
Much of my work focuses on a particular identity, an accurate depiction, from which I create more abstract images. Recently, I have become more confident to flow with line and colour directly from my imagination. The feel of fabric and the process of hand stitch I find addictively cathartic. Particular place or species names can appear stitched into work that the viewer might see otherwise as simply abstract.