Creating is my constant, it’s how I navigate life, making my work autobiographical and cyclical in its nature.
My process is sensual and investigative, led by my experiences, interactions and intuition. Recording what I see, hear, think, feel, read and dream, the work exists somewhere between what I live and imagine.
Predominantly I paint large-scale female portraits, which evolve from photoshoots. Fabricating other worldly scenarios, I integrate body art, performance, location, props and costume. My background in film, festivals and fashion continue to feed my practice.
My work is an investigation into the realms of the feminine, delving in to the psyche in all its varied and contrasting manifestations; sensual, powerful, vulnerable, devastating and glorious.
I’m enamoured by fiction, mythology, nature and spirituality. Everything stems back to identity, transformation, self-discovery and imagined worlds and I gravitate towards artists who explore these themes: Louise bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, Frida Kahlo.
Currently I am working on ‘Perceptions’ a series of self-portraits which focus on distortion: Using lenses and mirrors to create a dimension of space, becoming the observer observing the observer. As well as 'Projections', becoming interested in environments and what effect and relationship we have to them and vice versa. The mirroring and projecting of internal and external spaces and landscapes, the paradox of interconnectedness and separateness. I consciously seek new environments, to see things with fresh eyes, landscapes, shapes, colours, moods and sounds all inform my creative decisions.