For me, drawing is an act of resistance; a tool of exploration that informs.

In drawing, we are paying attention. By drawing using my senses, I take space and time to come in close and be involved in what's around me.

This is a process that forms connection. 

 

Rather than feel scarcity, I choose to see abundance. I refuse to accept the state of fear we are currently conditioned to feel. By continuing my work, I oppose the priorities and the language increasingly imposed upon us and the destructive disconnection and subsequent addictions being created and exploited by those who seek to profit. I form my work alongside the wild, questioning the way we regard the non-human and calling upon our creative imagination to relate to those other than ourselves.

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I'm inspired by so many artists, often the lesser known quiet powerful work such as Ivon Hitchens, Anna Ancher, Joan Mitchell, Peter Lanyon and the drawings of Louise Bourgeois, Paula Rego, Adolf Menzel and Johannes S.Kjarval.

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I continue to be influenced by the work of Rachel Carson and John Berger and those who have urged us to see beyond what we are simply told.