My work reflects on the human experience, my paintings, often bodily, entwine figurativeness with gestural, abstract layering of brushwork. The colours, and levels of opacity and transparency are metaphors in the passing of time, the brushwork reflects experiences we seek to hide or forget and those we need to unarchive and return to.

There is an established visual language in my work, drawing is a big part of each painting, the threads or skeleton which hold the rendering of colour plains together.

The conversations with each work are constructed in a therapeutic way of layering and reworking and leaving when that visual conversation can say no more. Sometimes new thoughts make me return to that conversation and at other times, the work is done and the conversation came to a satisfactory conclusion.

My work is often about aging and the significance of that but has always been about time and my personal experiences and archive.

This is in reference to loss, bereavement, motherhood, womanhood and what that can feel like physically and emotionally.

The painted and constructed surfaces play with the idea of ‘expanded painting’ this approach seems both a natural progression of my painting process and a revisiting of established methods that consider space and the bigger experience of the work. 

Recently there are distinctive and celebratory conclusions of forgiveness, enlightenment, and resolution.