I carry out my visual art practice as an essential act of self-care. Through research and experimentation with mark making, colour, found objects, textiles and text, my work is abstract, often unplanned and regularly instigated by an impulse, sense of need, or an improvised moment of play. I make art to consciously explore, navigate and process the landscapes of emotion I experience and to shape a language for these in visual form.
I work instinctively at first and then start to build up a piece gradually through observation, awareness, response and change. I am in relationship with what is unfolding, my inner child at the heart of what is taking place. My work invites the viewer to take time to connect to a world of feeling, spontaneity and exploration and celebrates being in relationship with our emotions, as consciously felt experiences that are unique and subjective to us all, as key sources of expression, growth and realisation.
