About

After completing studies in Fine Art at Falmouth University, Cornwall, I moved to Shetland in 2016. Exploring both the islands’ natural environment and its many aspects of heritage and history, I make work about human notions of landscape and space, and I am especially interested in how changes such as environmental destruction, climate crisis and shifting contemporary ideologies are affecting this. My practise focuses on drawing using traditional media such as pencil to representationally describe form, but I also use photography, so dominant in today’s world of rapid image consumption.  I am interested in the many ways both media can inform each other, and in the process, reveal things about image making and our relationship with images. I’m also often influenced by the Romantic era, a time when (strangely in parallel with industrialisation’s growing cult of progress and the ‘conquering-of-nature’) artists first used ‘the sublime’ in landscape images to inspire both awe and terror in the viewer.