As an artist, I create mixed media drawings and handmade sculptural books. In content, both studio practices explore personal narratives and cultural history and acknowledge the body as a persistent reference point. The majority of works on paper involve a combination of pinhole photography, van dyke brown printmaking and hand drawn imagery. In this research, I am interested in integrating photographically derived images with more conventionally rendered elements and wedding the concrete with the dreamlike and ephemeral.

For many years, this studio work focused on the image of water surrounding the figure to establish a site of transformation and redemption and to support a fluid narrative structure. More recently, informed by personal experiences and my educational background in ecology, I’ve begun including botanical and landscape imagery in my drawings. These varied organic references transgress physical boundaries and are now visible within the figurative forms.

Along with my interests in drawing, I have a regular studio practice dedicated to the design and construction of single edition, sculptural books and handbound journals. While making books, I find the demanding attention to craft, and my deep affinity for language, material meaning, and narrative form fully engaged and compelling as a mode of inquiry.