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About

I am a UK based visual artist/designer making photographic art and designing interior objects layered with inspiration from history, the natural landscape and cultural heritage. Drawn to the sensory and temporal aspects of landscape, my recent work explores deep time and human interconnectedness with the natural world.

Moving between the material and virtual, I combine photography with other techniques including montage/printmaking/drawing/3D animation and augmented reality. I follow a research-based practice, engaging in critical narratives and contemporary thought.

Designing print, pattern and products for interiors is a relatively new venture. In Oct 2021 I was listed as one of the ‘Faces of the Future’ in Livingetc magazine after working with Habitat to design a floor lamp which launched November 2021. 

Committed to reducing environmental impact, I carefully consider materials, suppliers and waste in all projects.  My printed artworks are created in small limited editions using carefully selected paper from sustainable sources. 

Please contact me if you would like to purchase/commission art work or to discuss collaborating on a project.

Artist Statement

My work explores the way the world unfolds and enfolds itself as a sensory and temporal experience. Using the past to make connections with the present, I am interested in the fragmented narratives which emerge.

My process often begins with the tactility of a surface, a trace, sensation or fleeting detail drawing me to an object or place. Following threads of conscious and unconscious thought, I explore, uncover and piece together fragments past and present.  Along the way, gaps appear, coincidences reveal themselves and connections are formed. Together these culminate in visual narratives and emotive responses, which oscillate around themes of absence and presence, memory, heritage, loss and renewal.

Exhibitions/Awards

2024 Mar-Jul 

This Fractured Land, Discover Bucks Museum, Aylesbury

2024 May-Jun

Photofusion Salon 2024, Brixton, London

2023 Jul

Open Art Exhibition, Discover Bucks Museum, Aylesbury

2023  Feb

AIS Open Festival – Shortlisted

2023  Jan

Small Files Festival – Shortlisted, Photographers Gallery, London

2022 Dec  

Photofusion Salon 2022, Brixton, London

2021 Jul-Aug

Photofusion Salon 2021, Brixton, London

2021 Aug-Sep

Wells Art Contemporary 2021, Wells Cathedral

Education

2014

Arts Award ‘Discover and Explore’ Training, Trinity College, London

2005-11

BA (Hons) Photography (1st),  University of Westminster, Harrow

2004-05

Diploma Foundation Art and Design, Bucks Chiltern University College, Buckinghamshire  

1990-94

BSc (Hons) Computer Science and German (2:1), Staffordshire University, Stafford

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