Artist Statement
My work is heavily influenced by my love of the outdoors, and the patterns, colours, and changes that can be observed in the natural world. Having had a fairly transitory first 35 years moving from place to place, I grew up associating different plants, animals, landscapes, and seasons with locations and times of my life. Much of my work explores the ideas of belonging and attachment to the places we love and the idea of calling a place 'home'; the connections and associations we form with the geography of nature as we try to hold on or let go of parts of our past, acknowledging both the beauty and sadness of change. I often interweave repeated patterns in my paintings and incorporate sewing patterns in the layers, tying them to the changing patterns in nature, the weathering of time, and the idea of impermanence.
