Artist Bio

My practice explores the embodied experience and the relationship between landscape, memory and understanding of place. Rooted in the traditions of fine art painting and technical drawing, my work investigates the tactile dialogue between artist, medium, and environment.

 
Landscape, for me, is an active, dynamic presence rather than a static backdrop. Through painting and drawing, I explore the rhythms and transience of the natural world - tidal processes, wind through grasses, the gradual erosion and renewal of surfaces. Although still often representative, these gestures record moments of immersion, echoing the sensory experience of being within a landscape rather than observing it from afar. This approach positions my work within contemporary ecological art and maintains a deeply intimate and poetic sensibility.

Extended solitary time lived in nature allows me the space to connect, observe and respond to the subtle shifts in light, sound, weather conditions and for them to imprint themselves on the work.

My process often involves isolating and re-examining fragments of larger images, cutting into compositions to reveal intimate details that might otherwise be overlooked. This act of reduction and focus mirrors the way memory operates, selective, partial and changed with emotion. It is in these small gestures and overlooked textures that the narrative of a place or moment exists. Ultimately, my practice seeks to reveal the quiet beauty in flux, decay and renewal, the subtle dialogue and visual poetry between nature and self.

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Materially, my principal methods are drawing and painting, I also engage directly with environmental factors such as earth, pigment and found objects. I am currently exploring time-based approaches through the documenting of natural process and subtle environmental shifts, such as tidal rhythms, wind, changing light and metrological conditions. During the residency, I anticipate that this project will be explored primarily through these same mediums with a particular focus on sustained observation and attentiveness to changes over time. I plan to collect, collate, document and interpret found objects and for this to be a vital part of the work.