My work explores memory, transformation, and the quiet beauty of imperfection and noticing the often overlooked. All my work is process driven – constant decision making and refinement. At the heart of this is a consistent commitment to abstract elements and searching for the principles of emptiness, calm, simplicity and chance in order to establish an inner tension.

I trained at Winchester School of Art in the 1980s – a very painterly place back then and I have been painting almost exclusively for forty years before I began using collage.    Paint remains one of my central preoccupations; its physicality and I use oil painted papers together with vintage papers in my collages.

 The ephemera found in junk shops and charity shops form the material for my collage. Halcyon colours that connect us to childhoods; 70s fonts and Edwardian  handwritten script – papers smoothed and stroked and aged by touching – physical, analogue and intimate. I only have one box of collage ephemera; a deliberate choice which helps me be particular.

I have lived in St Ives with its rich artistic traditions and it’s a place that still informs my practice.