ARTIST STATEMENT

As an artist connected to the natural world, I create work that explores our relationship with landscape through the lens of ecofeminism and psychogeography. My multi-disciplinary practice spans textiles, painting, printing, sculpture, and performance, examining how places impact our emotions, behaviour, and memory.

My work transcends linear constructs by interweaving organic materials, personal narratives, and craft traditions to reawaken our sense of belonging to the land. The formative nature of my practice stems from decades of walking, swimming, cycling, and horse riding through landscapes – immersing myself in nature's rhythms allows me to gradually formulate ideas and gain a sense of meaning within each place. As Rebecca Solnit wrote, "When you give yourself to places, they give you yourself back."

I forage natural materials like bark, berries, and minerals while walking, then experiment by making inks and observing how they layer, react, and evolve over time – an organic process reflecting nature's cycles. This experimental approach extends to my cyanotype work, where I create animations and films that capture the ever-shifting qualities of natural environments.

Recently, I've been creating immersive experiences that transform gallery spaces using cyanotype animations and audio soundscapes. These installations invite visitors to experience natural environments, particularly marshlands—those in-between spaces where water meets land. Through layered cyanotype animations displayed on large monitors alongside carefully positioned audio, I create what Foucault terms "heterotopic spaces" — counter-sites that simultaneously represent, contest, and invert conventional spatial relationships. Each frame's deliberate imperfection honours these liminal edgelands in constant flux, challenging digital precision while embracing organic inconsistency.

My "Salt Lines" walks and workshops further extend this engagement, inviting participants to develop intimate connections with local ecosystems through creative practice. I see art-making as a collaborative activity, as much about community as it is about process. By balancing solitary exploration with collective discovery, I aim to build resilient communities rooted in deep connection to place. Through my work, I hope to revive folk traditions and strengthen connections to local landscapes, sparking conversations about our relationship with the natural world.

My creative approach is characterised by nurturing, collaboration, and resilience. I join other female artists in exploring place, walking as art practice, and reviving folk customs. My installations embody Lucy Lippard's "lure of the local" — psychogeographic spaces where visitors experience landscape's liminality directly. Here, memory and materiality converge, inviting viewers to inhabit threshold spaces between presence and absence, documentation and experience.

My work has been exhibited at the Royal College of Art's "FORCES of NATURE" exhibition at Oare Gunpowder Works Country Park, Faversham, and has been part of community projects focused on environmental awareness across Kent.

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