We all have our own ideas of how things are. I imagine everything is connected - life, thought, culture, history - with a continuous process of fragmentation, realignment and evolution. I am intrigued that we can change our opinion on something simply by changing our perception of it, that we can hold opposing ideas, happily unaware of the inconsistency or contradiction. In our different ways we all try to put cohesion around a personal set of perceptions, experiences, heritage, circumstances, needs and drives.  My work is about making visible these processes of connection and evolution, arcs through time, fleeting moments held still.
My process involves a lot of different mark-making painting techniques, often using more than 30 layers. I want to create a depth in the mark making that in the end is so complex the sequence cannot be fathomed but at the same time appears so natural and familiar one forgets that it is fabricated. Cloth is brought to life as if it might have agency, as if a random moment in its movement can hold meaning, as if something of the emotional life of humanity could be reflected there. Objects appear to be consumed, as if growing life forms have repurposed their original function.
My work is not about my story, although I do have a story - I grew up exploring the New Forest with my best friend, a dog; lived on a sailing boat and skipped/home-schooled as my parents decided to leave the rat race; re-entered school as a total alien; met my husband young and took off round the world raising our three children across 12 different countries; when they left home I started my own art career in New York, and then, for the last six years, have been building my career in London.
I don’t buy into the one-trajectory-fits-all idea, and prefer to think every artist has a unique perspective to create from. My work is not about me, it’s about the connections and understandings we build through experience, life, family, learning, and expanding our mind.