I am a visual artist, mostly working in printmaking, but with elements of painting and sculpture too. I’m interested in landscape and our connection to it, particularly how aspects of the landscape – its geology, the impacts of human intervention – provide a temporal record of events or interactions and how we as individuals relate to them.  The idea of landscape is, for me, intrinsically linked with memory because of family traditions of walking and spending time in nature and the loss of both parents over the last few years.  In my work, I aim to convey some measure of the ‘intimate immensity’ which characterises landscape for me: personal and intimate recollections of events and people juxtaposed with the feeling of wholly inhabiting or being part of a vast natural system.  

My practice involves exploring landscape through photography which captures the essential elements of particular places and moments that are important to me.  These are then translated through various processes to produce works that are more universal. My work encompasses etching, photo-based printmaking and sculptural ceramics, working from images of landscape which often skirt the traditional notion of landscape art, focusing on what is underfoot or unseen instead of the scenic view.  I am particularly interested in the boundary between 2D and 3D and conveying some sense of how the landscape is formed – its geology and the impact of human activity.  Materiality and the haptic are also important aspects of my work: I want to make work that invites closer consideration and interaction through that visual sense of touch.