For the exhibition Is This Real at The Graphic Studio Gallery with Yoko Akino my aim was to create a series of prints that, together, would behave in much the same way as words do in a poem. So that, not always coherently linked but nonetheless emotionally linked, a series of images becomes a train of thought: a visual poem.
The driving force of my art is my fascination with the complex way we communicate as humans, from our facial expressions and body language to our unique storytelling abilities. At present my work delves into our relationship with the natural world and how we demystify it in order to better embrace it.
The images that I make touch on the essential need to communicate by telling stories. They observe people, life and the world that surrounds us. It is a way of understanding our environment or making it less alien to us.
My prints are stories without narrative. They are in the spirit of cave paintings, glimpses into a place where the natural world has grazed our subconscious.