While studying sculpture at Grays School of Art I discovered my interest  in materials and landscape. 

I researched  imagery through photography and drawing, especially around the industrial areas of the city. This began my  focus on relationships  with environments; memory; sense of place and belonging.

Later work in animation sparked an interest in visual story telling so I went to Central St Martins College of Art  to do a post graduate MA in scenography (direction and design in performance including theatre and film.) 

In 2000 I moved back to my childhood home in the Isle of Lewis where I still live. 

The work shown here includes drawing, painting,  printmaking and sculpture.

My current sources include wild places around the Western Isles,  drawing on our innate sense of landscape, connectedness and belonging.

 I continue to be absorbed by the ways we experience places; how physical environment feeds the imagination. 

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Inspirational texts:

 

“ The ground is all memoranda and signatures”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850)

 

“..One single space pervades all beings here: an inner world-space.

Silently, the birds fly through us still.

Oh, I who want to grow,can gaze outside:

a tree will rise inside me…”

 

Rilke  notebooks (1915)

 

‘…..the power of the Highland landscape to draw people into intimacy with it..

showed how particular places might make possible particular thoughts.’

 

 Robert Macfarlane: 'The Old Ways' (2012) on the observations and experiences of

 Nan Shepherd author of  The Living Mountain

( written circa 1940)