Enigmatic, visceral and mythic, my multidisciplinary artwork explores the reclamation of body and self within a post-industrial British landscape undergoing its own TRANSFORMATIONS.

Drawing parallels between the scars and healing of the land and those of the human body, mind and soul, I evoke ambiguous Edenic realms. Here, nature and humanity merge: unbound by societal expectations in a primal threshold between threat and desire, creation and obliteration, domination and surrender.

Luminous figures and landscapes emerge from paintings on wood or paper as if caught in a moment of transformation. Never still, always changing, they are created through cycles of ritualistic layering and destruction to dissolve boundaries between physical and energetic bodies. Peat-black clay sculptures and vessels act as totems of hope, strength and remembrance. Words weave in and out to tease, test, reframe and retell stories as old as time.

My practice is grounded by an intensely physical connection with the landscape's cycles of life, death and rebirth: from sketching and writing while trail running through environments teeming with hidden stories to embodied understanding of natural systems in conservation work and horticultural studies.

Rooted in childhood memories of trespassing into forbidden gardens and wild spaces to escape an emotionally threatening home, each somatic interaction with the natural world deepens my experience of self, resilience and empowerment, feeding my creative expression and vitality.