Authentic connection with materials is integral to my art practice and plays an important role in my storytelling.

“When making art I am acutely aware of expressing the provenance of the piece, as I pull together elements of materiality; the natural lie of the wood, the paper or textile often handmade, using skills passed from one generation to the next, the hard and sharp edge of the tools I use to carve away the surface, carrying their own artisanal history. The layering of tone and colour; what is seen and what is unseen, but is nevertheless present, all contribute to the finished artwork.” 

My central theme of my work is the idea that lived experience lingers in a place, recorded on the surfaces of rock, droplets of water and suspended particles in air and liquid. A residual energy, reluctant to leave, pooling in the space or mounting up as a palimpsest on the very structure of the environment.

This theme of layered energy in a space is carried through each of the series that I work on, some perpetual (like A Sense of Place) and some that I leave for a while and return to (for example Head Under Water). 

My art practice is focussed on building cohesive bodies of work that visually demonstrate an idea or thought that I have. For this reason, the exhibition of work is a primary objective and I will often complete work and only offer it for sale at a later stage once it has been exhibited.

I have exhibited in the United Kingdom at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (2022, 2023, 2024) and I am represented by Circle Contemporary in Cornwall.  I have exhibited widely in South Africa at galleries such as Ebony Curated, Lizamore, W17 Gallery, David Krut Projects, Gallery 2, StateoftheART, Daor Contemporary, Kalk Bay Modern, Artvark, and White River Gallery among others. My work is held in public collections (such as The Art Bank of South Africa Acquisitions 2022 and 2023/2024) and private collections in South Africa and worldwide.

My natural mark making and stitched work is an intimate recordal of thoughts and feelings on cloth. The cloth that I work on, has been botanically printed or dyed from locally foraged plants. These scraps of textile are layered and connected in a slow and deliberate process, developing as I stitch and think. My message and journal cloths say the things that I do not say out loud and remember the feelings that I may otherwise forget.