About me

I am a painter, drawer and performance artist whose practice explores the relationship between the human body and landscape. I use mark- making to examine the rhythms, patterns and movement that exist in both intimate and expansive environments. Through painting and ink drawing, I respond to these natural cycles, creating images that reflect processes of change, renewal and growth. Working largely from memory, I build landscapes through repeated visits, allowing images to form slowly in the mind before they emerge through abstraction and invention.

Storytelling, memory and lived experience are central to my practice. I use landscape as a narrative structure through which I explore ideas around gender, equality, biodiversity and our relationship with the environments we inhabit. My landscapes are vibrant and hopeful, informed by a belief that optimism and joy can act as forms of resistance to the reductive language often used to describe both people and place.

Alongside my visual practice, my performative work investigates gender and identity. I have explored themes of shame and hiding. More recently, I have used performance to enter the landscape directly, extending my studio practice into lived space and time.

I studied Fine Art in Hull in the late 1980s, where my early interest in landscape, gender and material processes first developed. After working in studios in Hull and Europe, I returned to Bristol in 1992 and exhibited in galleries there. I then went on to live in London, Dublin, Sunderland and finally North East Scotland. Settling in Aberdeenshire, I raised two children, forming a deep relationship with the landscape.

My work is self-portraiture, leaving traces of an internal process while honouring fluid gender, neurodiversity and the quiet power of open landscapes.