My early interests in art and architecture now embrace land art and place-making. The rolling, changing contours of landscape are continuously influenced by the restless, unpredictable elemental events of weather and geological upheaval, more recently including the human effect of industrialisation and mass developments.
Influenced amongst others by art movement arte povera, late 1967-72 ‘Italian artists who attacked the corporate mentality with an art of unconventional materials and style’, I look to use non-traditional, every-day, throwaway materials not so much through lack of money but because they bring a child-like, playful freedom without constraints as well as a wish to counter consumerism of 21C.
Drawing is essential to my everyday practice. It enables the loose flow of thoughts, transposing them into 3D, looking at irregular repetition, scale and volume. My methodology lies in uncertainty, taking the alarming leap into a chasm without boundaries and the willingness to follow a chain of ideas that might lead to something.
Recent work has focused on series of objects mainly from wood off-cuts that blur the boundaries between form and function. Frequently using familiar domestic references of container, vessel, table and seat in outsized, unpractical forms. The work experiments with rhythm, balance and colour in combination and arrangements of repeated shapes.
Recent commissions focus on erratic or muddled forms built within a distinct vocabulary of strict principles intended to create questions of uncertainty. They ask the viewer to query what they see and physically to experience the work to make sense of it.
Jan 2021 – RWA - Bristol
Feb 2020 – ...it’s a wrap - King Street, Bristol
Nov 2019 – S.W. Academy of Artists - Open The Castle, Exeter
Sept 2019 – Black Swan Gallery - Frome
July 2019 – SWA Women Society of Artists - Mall Galleries, London
June 2019 – SPACE gallery - Old Market, Bristol
May 2019 – Royal West of England Academy [RWA] - Bristol
2020 – Lost Words Letter Columns, Tree Rings, dandelion, Ripple Greenway, Barking to Dagenham
2019 – Refuge, Brean Down Way, Weston to Brean
2018 – Mileposts, Brean Down Way, Weston to Brean
2017 – Bird Wall, Brean Down Way, Weston to Brean Down
University of West of England – MA Fine Art
Adult Art School – Extension Studies - Design and Make
University of Bristol – B Ed
Dartington College of Arts – Visual Art Diploma
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