About
My work has been paper based over the last several years using various media such as watercolour, drawing, collage and paper cutouts. I use the medium of collage as I like the precision involved and find it an ideal medium for experimentation and playfulness. This is demonstrated in my paper 'cutouts' in which I use flat, colourful shapes with scissors as a drawing tool to produce fine level of detail. I draw inspiration from the natural world – the animal kingdom, birds, plants, trees, flowers and leaves. Recently I have been exploring death in nature and the nature of death – what happens when living things start to fail and wither away and how they relate to the environment. I am interested in the dignity and finality of death as well as the strange beauty of a lifeless, dead bird or animal. I have examined this theme in the studies of dead animals found lying on the ground and in a long paper cutout collage in which dead animals and birds lie on the forest floor surrounded by fallen leaves and branches and a part carcass. Despite the macabre subject matter, it is a colourful scene which gives hope for the future.