I make work to show you my world.

My drawing practice has a focus on the apparently ordinary and mundane, which when viewed from another angle or another time is revealed to be extraordinary.

My textile work uses felt, the most basic fabric, transforming individual wool fibres into a new material with its own character. My process is based on constructing and re-constructing, re-imagining at each stage what my materials can do. 

This re-interpretation of what I see through re-construction is underpinned by my interest in memory and the role of forgetting in the life-story we tell ourselves. This interest grew from the realisation that my family photographs don’t intersect much with my memories, as though they were documenting someone else’s life. But everything shaped me even if there were no photographs. It is the gaps that make room for re-interpretation, re-examination and re-imagining.

Re-imagining produces multiple narratives and versions, reflecting my life as a twin, full of multiple narratives derived from the same experiences. 

Rediscovery has become another theme in my work, re-connecting me with my first degree in Classics and Greek Archaeology, a subject area defined by loss, recovery and re-discovery. What first interested me as a child was the idea that you could reconstruct something from silent fragments, often of everyday items. 

I circle round these themes of forgetting, re-discovering, constructing and re-constructing, casting new light on our shared world.

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

from T S Eliot The Four Quartets

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