Eco-mythology serves as both metaphor and lived practice in my artistic work, guiding me to explore the reciprocal relationship between inner landscapes and the natural world. Just as ancient myths used nature to illuminate human experience, I draw on ecological narratives to understand personal transformation, resilience, and interconnection—recognising that the stories we tell about environmental regeneration or depletion often mirror our own internal cycles of growth and renewal.
My art-making process itself embodies this reciprocity: as I give attention and care to materials and imagery, they reveal unexpected meanings and possibilities in return, teaching me about patience, adaptation, and the collaborative nature of creation. This exchange relies deeply on intuition—trusting the non-verbal wisdom that emerges when I listen to both the materials and the natural world, allowing insights to surface that rational thought alone cannot access.
Through this practice, I seek to cultivate narratives that honour both the literal urgency of our ecological relationships and the metaphorical wisdom that nature offers for navigating personal and collective transformation, understanding that tending to one inevitably nourishes the other.
In Praise of Shadows: Japan 2024
Umbilical Flowers 2024
Elemental Series 2022-2023
Mapping A Narrative: Memories and Other Days, 2021
This body of work is a meditation in distillation; it doesn’t seek to document but rather to resonate with a phenomenological sense of being in the world; employing familiar aspects of landscapes that suggest and resonate.
Informed by shapes and motifs of the natural environment and shadows of experience, as well as patterns and cycles of decay and regrowth, these serene, intimate works draw the viewer into quiet contemplation and an unspoken dialogue with the details of the natural world as well as our own inward geography. These works were made during the 2021 Covid Lockdown and were a creative conversation with memories and longing.