Artist Statement
My work has long engaged the dynamic between representational and affective art, a dialogic which illuminates the complexities and contradictions of the various roles and relationships we take on throughout our lives. It questions the way religious, mythical and symbolic imagery underpin a search for spiritual identity.
In recent years I've developed new work which explores the entanglement between human presence and place, landscape and memory.
My forms and marks are intended to suggest embodiment, interconnection, adaptive relationships and regenerative transformation.
The physical and conceptual processes of making this work are complex, involving erasure, de-construction, re-composition, adjustment, balancing and re-assembly.
The work speaks of being OF as well as IN a place, part of its patterning in slow, non-linear time. It speaks of deeply entwined inter-generational belonging on this planet we call Earth.