I am on a train writing in an old note book… serendipitously, at the back of which are pages of recipes for collagraph plates I made at the RCA, these have spurred me on to make a few experimental plates in addition to the prototypes of last week. If the surfaces marry well with the shapes and patterns of the subject matter, great, if not, perhaps they’ll lead on to something else.
I am a painter-printmaker and video-artist focusing on the links between a micro and macro view of nature. The initial stage of my creative process is to make videos; my paintings and prints take inspiration from these videos – seemingly abstract, but with a basis in the 'seen' world. My goal is that my pieces transcend particular spaces and become places in which to lose oneself. I am particularly drawn to hidden histories. My current project explores my identity and neurodiversity using images of my own cells as a form of self portraiture. My love of pattern and repetition is a big part of who I am: chaos can be transformed into order - a way of structuring my own chaos.
I have a studio in North Yorkshire.
