My work investigates the connection between the visual and sensory experience of landscape and how it is channelled materially through the gestural mark.
Working with the process of mono-printing, the mark of the hand wipes away, scrawls and jabs, revealing an image from the steel plate covered in rolled ink. Fragments of imagery, some abstract, are gleaned from nature and unconscious or imagined sources. The time limitation of the technique serves as a conduit to both print and painting practice: encouraging spontaneity, in sync to emotive and exterior stimulus - an honest mark without contrivance. The series, Forbidden Garden, takes its inspiration from a locked, neglected 18th century walled garden near her flat. The disallowance of entry fuelled the imagination, the work produced subsequently mirroring the unruly, overgrown environment with gestural abandon.
The current series, Wood through the Trees, witnesses a view that is introspective, yet magical, an almost meditative space that echoes the instinctive pull of outdoor spaces to the isolated during the pandemic.