My work gently contemplates the visceral emotional response to place, which transpire through large scale drawings and installation. I draw representational images of nature and man made objects, tangled together to metaphorically refer to interior and exterior worlds.  These representational images of nature engage ideas of beauty and fragility to often reflect on the often harsh reality of tension in the environment and our humanity.  

Accessing the underlying theme of the symbolism of plants and the language of flowers, poetically depicts this duality of tension and desire to balance light and darkness. I draw primarily from memory,  which provides a freedom to work from emotional insight, while keeping images familiar but also foreign.

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It is an instinctive process responding from the empirical exploration to create a tangible and visual narrative. The materiality of building up single graphite pencil strokes or monochromatic coloured pencil on paper, elevate the ephemerality of each piece.    While the handmade brass nails, partially exposed through the paper, are a reminder of the gentle harshness found in nature. These spectral renditions tangle and float together, unknowingly suspended and isolated in no specific space or time.  They are strange and precarious, filled with tenderness and self destruction.