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About

I make drawings and paintings that explore the psychological and emotional impact of lived experience on female identity.  My aim is to make work that has a deep emotional resonance. My process is inner and intimate - tracing a thread of thought and responding.

Automatic drawing and painting are the core of my practice. As I paint my mind meanders through fragmented memories, sounds, echoes of conversations, lines of text, secret thoughts and noted feelings. 

Different versions of events collide and compete for veracity on the surface of the painting. Strange yet familiar fragmented layers of meaning emerge creating ‘What-if” scenarios in my mind.  

 

There is ambiguity and doubt – that feeling of ‘Was it really like that, is that how it was?’ There is concealment – lost or repressed histories - elements that may be painted over or only partially revealed. 

 

My hand charts reverberations that echo through time – as past, present and possible futures collide in an elusive moment.

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