Artist Statement

As my work has developed I have moved from black and white drawings, to thread drawings (embroidery on heat transfers) to needle felted wall sculptures. My work is simple but paradoxically complex- like the organisms it depicts!  The photorealism is a tool to draw the viewer in and spark a sense of wonder similar to that which I feel when I experience these environments first hand. I am always looking for ways to bring nature into our built environments.

For the me, the time spent making the work, attempting to depict the original form with painstaking accuracy, is a kind of devotional practice; a sacrament to the beauty and awe I experience amongst our more than human kin.

I consider each piece of work I undertake to be a meditation into a more deep and full understanding of the web of life. Fungi have been a focus of my work recently, because they are so varied and fascinating in form, but also because they are the fruiting bodies of vast, invisible webs that are essential to the healthy functioning of a forest. I have also been making larger works that portray the forest as a whole. Forests and all their parts (trees, mycellium, mosses, lichens etc) are an essential part of the ecosystem that we depend on for our own survival.