Statement

My works arise from the belief that images are unique in their capacity to precede language as a form of memory, both individual and collective. Like dreams, they contain primitive and undigested vestiges of the human experience, which are often inaccessible to the reasoning mind.

I am fascinated with making the invisible visible. Emanation, movement, feeling, thought; I create imagery that attempts to reveal what is hidden beneath the ground, or whirling in the air, suggesting a suffusive presence underlying phenomena which captivates and intoxicates the senses.

Through my mosaics, I have developed a method using clay, glaze and glass to depict these visions that literally jump off the surface, pushing out into space. I am drawn to their tactile, luminous nature - on the wall the vitreous surface of glaze and tessera dance with the light.

The allegorical nature of the mosaics are the stories I wish to tell, often buried in ancient myth, which reveal much about our contemporary frame of mind.