My concepts are emotionally driven by our relationships and connections with human and “other than human” beings. I am endlessly curious and in awe of the natural world to which I believe us to be inexorably linked and totally responsible for. My passion for minutiae and foraging has resulted in an attention to detail consistent in my work.

A life long love of experimentation of creating with multi media is how I physically express my ideas and the alchemical processes required by clay and metals being the key to my affinity with them. There is always that random element beyond my control that determines the end result; rather like life itself.

My long and diverse career in the UK as a freelance designer/illustrator/maker of a wide range of surface pattern, book illustration, greeting cards, ceramics, kitchen products and memorial ware has provided a rich foundation for my present work.

I exhibited widely and my designs included in ranges for many National and International companies.

My work in the community here in Australia, combining my passions with my skills is where I unexpectedly “found my element” (Sir Ken Robinson) and it became integral with my own arts practice. 

A sense of the fragility of the world is intimately connected to an appreciation of its wonders. This sense of wonder can be called childlike, but that doesn’t make it childish. In maturity, wonder develops into a perpetually life-renewing thing.

Sir David Attenborough