I am an conceptual/ figurative artist whose work focuses on the intersectional experience of living in the sensual and psychological atmosphere of our planet. As someone who is interested in the human story, figurative painting is a natural home for me, but my practice includes drawing and painting in many media as well as sewing, textile experimentation and photography, and installation. I am a maker and a visual philosopher who explores the stories we tell ourselves and how they form our ideas of autonomy and solidarity. Exploring our collective histories and mythologies helps me see patterns and cycles and also to have a hopeful outlook ( the truth seems to have a way of resurfacing even when actively manipulated).

I love our Earthling-ness, our body language, our collective histories and mythologies, and our ability to make the hand made. The highly skilled, low tech fascinates me, it is there that I find traces of our humanity. Interacting with our world through our own senses, interpreting through the human brain and creating with our hands.

I use my intersectional understanding of the world to weave all these elements together to build my artwork. In the spirit of collaboration with past makers, I use antique handmade objects (ceramics and textiles) as the supports or conceptual hubs of my series of artworks. integrating historic handmade objects with my own figurative drawing, painting and collaging helps me to build a continuum of our human story from past to present leading into the future, which can still be influenced by the imagination and choices that we have and make today based on the lessons we learn from the past.

I am convinced that if we can learn to see the value in our humanness, and we see ourselves in the other, then we can build empathy and find new possible paths out of our collective cycles of history and create a new story. As the world is today, empathy and respect for the natural world (which includes us) is the most interesting topic I can think of exploring and expanding.