I often describe my work as site specific, this means that I respond to the environment which I work and use the available materials that are within that particular environment. My environments vary and consequently my materials vary too depending on where I live or work.
I am constantly absorbed by the process of change that the materials I use undergo when they are manipulated either by myself or by the natural elements; this is reflected in the methods I employ and the end results of my work. I use drawing, photography, film, performance, object making and story writing to express my thoughts about life, the constant and never ending cycle of change, of birth, life and decay, and a recognition of our human interconnection with the natural world.
The following quote from Pema Chodron’s book ‘The places that scare you’, sums up my own philosophy...
‘That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs. Everything is in process. Everything – every tree, every blade of grass, all the animals, insects, human beings, buildings, the animate and the inanimate – is always changing, moment to moment.’