The driving force

Born and bred in Kent, I studied Fine Art at Canterbury Christ Church University where I specialized in sculpture. But over the years since graduation, fused glass work and painting have also become an increasingly important part of my practice.

As for what drives my art, it all comes down to sex, birth and death. Informed by a daily connection with the cyclical rhythms of the natural world, in my studio in rural SE Kent, I work across sculpture, painting and glass fusion, recording time passing, the patterns of growth and decay, sunrise and sunset, birth and death, and I explore how these patterns might be expressed through the idiosyncrasies of human life. I am intrigued by pods, eggs, seeds - how these closed forms erupt and something totally new bursts forth. What was in them? What did they become? Where are they now? And in a wider sense I am fascinated by what is hidden and what is revealed, either deliberately or inadvertently, in both physical and emotional realms.

Oscillating between figurative and abstract, and using whichever materials I feel best suited to articulate sometimes complex ideas, I follow connecting threads, weaving between real and imaginary worlds.