I am a fulltime artist working in Cape Town. My focus is on printmaking, primarily woodcut, but my practice extends to various other mediums including sculptural and textile work, installations, and experimental art film, used to support a narrative.
After a previous career in corporate tax law, I have now practiced art for fourteen years, initially painting landscapes. In 2016 I started working once a week in the studio of printmaker Alma Vorster, to learn printmaking, which has been my primary focus since then.
I joined The Printing Girls Collective in 2020, exhibiting with them and curating and managing exhibitions. I am an elected Associate Member (ARE) of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE Printmakers) in the United Kingdom and now exhibit with this group. I have curated exhibitions at the Association for Visual Arts (Cape Town), StateoftheART Gallery (Cape Town), Gallery 2 (Johannesburg), RK Contemporary (Riebeek Kasteel) and White River Gallery. I exhibit widely in South Africa and the UK, and my work is held in private and public collections in South Africa and worldwide.
Since early 2021, I have been working mainly with woodblocks, experimenting with the natural surface and its translation onto paper and paper textiles. I have recently expanded my focus to other mediums which support and coexist with woodcut in my studio.
Process and authentic connection with materials is integral to my work and plays a significant role in my storytelling. When making art I am acutely aware of the developing provenance of the piece, as I pull together elements of materiality; the natural lie of the wood and marks made by the previous handlers of the wood, the texture and sheerness of paper or textile, the edge of the tools used to carve away surface or find a form. I am interested in what is seen and what is unseen but is nevertheless present in the finished artwork.
My art practice draws on 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. These themes are carried into different bodies of work, some of which continue indefinitely and some of which are transient.
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.
While you will find original artwork for sale here, 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.
Acquisitions – public and large collections:
2022: The Art Bank of South Africa – Acquisition of original screen print titled “No promises”
2023/2024: The Art Bank of South Africa – Acquisition of original woodcut and screen print titled “The Dromedary and Friends” – a collaboration piece made with digital artist Adam Black
2025: Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Diploma Collection – Acquisition of original woodcut titled “Suspended thoughts”
2025: Iziko South African National Gallery – Acquisition of original woodcut titled “Trace of a red tide”
2025: Clifford Chance LLP Art Collection – Acquisition of original woodcuts titled “Looking for a quiet place” and “Yellow rocks from a different angle”