After completing a Design degree at the College of Fine Arts (now UNSW Art and Design) I traveled extensively around Australia, exploring nature, inspired by its patterns, textures and intricacies. While in Perth I worked with Angela Mellor whose paper clay technique allowed me to imprint these patterns and was instrumental to the evolution of my work.

Returning to Sydney I co- created a Bush kids program bringing nature and art together. It was taken on by the council and continues to thrive. This program along with my ongoing volunteer work in Bushcare have informed my art practice which has a strong environmental focus and an underpinning belief that nature is the ultimate designer.

I currently work from my home studio in Sydney surrounded by bushland which continues to inspire my art. Light is important to my work, it represents the primordial essence, illuminating nature and the interconnectedness of all life.

My light Sculptures are made with Bone China slip which is translucent if thinly cast and held to light. If you hold any of the pieces up to daylight you can see this translucency but when they are illuminated from within they truly come to life.

Combinating slip casting with handbuilding techniques allows me to make multiples while creating a unique configuration of textures and surface treatment meaning that no two artworks are ever the same.

Through my work I try to create objects which bring this sense of nature connection into our homes and daily lives. To bring the outside in so that we may always be close to nature. To recreate the solace, connection and reverence I feel in these wild spaces.

My works are little memories, imprints of my time in nature, the secrets nature reveals to me when I take the time to connect and be present.
While my work illuminates imprints of my time in nature I hope it creates a contemplative experience for the viewer uniquely interpreted through their own nature memories.

As we are drawn into a world of wonder and awe we are remembering humanity’s deep connection with nature, that we are nature.
When we feel connected to something we care about it, we want to protect it.
I think it is particularly important in today’s world that on both an individual and collective level we are aware of nature’s intrinsic value and that we are inextricably linked to it.