Artist Statement

Discovering a deeper connection absorbs my artistic practice. I walk and record my surroundings to explore the metaphor between landscapes and my life experiences. I record the conflicting differences between being absorbed with the delicacy and power of female experience contrasted or linked to the rhythms of the skies and landscape. I continually investigate how I connect to the landscape whether through memory, physicality or spiritually.  

As a Norfolk born Artist, I am inherently inspired by my surroundings. The constant transient nature of the landscape, quietly undulating and ever escaping skies allows me to breathe and meditate and ultimately explore a profound connection to my surroundings and experience. 

The use of thread has become quietly integral to my practice. I am exploring the female narrative and endeavouring to demonstrate the potential benefits of true equality by asking poignant questions of the modern female experience. The thread allows the viewer a route of connection. An invitation to explore further. This tapestry of colours and textures is sought from many sources and created in many forms from fine watercolour line to physical threads. As a female artist exploration of the ‘Thread’ represents an historical, cultural and on a personal level matriarchal symbolism. 

Connection is a constant theme of my practice and I question my connection to my environment. Landscape is the anchor however objects that ‘call out’ to be discovered, I obsessively record. Why do they call out? Why do I need to take them home and understand them? What am I trying to discover? This parallel between landscape and object is a beautiful battle that hinges on whether I look up and out or down and within.