I like to create unique artwork, using a variety of materials, including hand painted silks, applied fibres, photographic images, dyed velvets, stitching and found objects such as driftwood and sea-glass.
My artwork explores the ranges of emotion that continually overlap and pull in all directions. I seek to express my conflict between the desire to please and be all things to all people, and a backlash against that need to conform to expectations.
In my artwork I create numerous layers of colour, texture, light and contrast using a mix of media. I am fascinated by the notion of hidden worlds and the points of tension where we can glimpse them momentarily: revelations of truths obscured by convention; the point when a flower unfurls to expose a world of seeds and possibilities within; glancing through a window to reveal another reality.
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