I am a visual artist, mostly working in printmaking, but with elements of painting and sculpture too. I’m interested in memory and its connection to landscape. 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 skirt the traditional notion of landscape art, focusing on what is underfoot or unseen instead of the scenic view.  These images tend to be textural and somewhat ambiguous, though for me personally there is a strong and specific meaning or memory associated with each image.

I am particularly interested in the boundary between 2D and 3D and in ideas around preserving fragile or unreliable memory and containing or navigating related emotions. 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.