My practice is a testament to my surroundings, entangled in curiosity and stitched together with care, it is rooted in the everyday.

My paintings often start off with a drawing expedition, sketchbook and fountain pen in hand. I draw what I see, spending a lot of time wandering and wondering, watching the seasons change and the birds swoop and soar, noticing shadows as objects imprint themselves on others. Then, I take the drawings back to the studio and stitch different compositions together in paint, imagining what takes place in the spaces between and integrating elements of old photographs or images from cookbooks.  I think of myself as a landscape painter and my paintings as postcards, mementos of fleeting moments and documentation of the turbulence of everyday life. This could be moments of care, craft, nostalgia, adventure, overwhelming excitement, homeliness but also loneliness and trepidation. I am drawn to the act of preserving, collecting and reusing, prolonging the lives of objects or moments and sharing them with others.

My love of cooking fuels my art practice. For me, painting and cooking are intertwined as food, like art, acts as a vessel for stories. Recently, I have been thinking about where our food comes from. Inspired by our family vegetable garden in Herefordshire, I have borrowed compositions from community gardens and allotments in Glasgow, connecting myself and my practice to the land and the seasons whiles living in the city. I am inspired by plants and their application to ornament, noticing the lyrical rhythms of their leaves and how they tangle themselves together.

My practice has become a patchwork quilt of my surroundings; the simplicity, abundance and quiet beauty of it all. It represents the limbo state of not knowing, of trying to stay present and navigating busy life. There is a whimsy and magic in the in between and the overlooked. I want to encourage the viewer to notice more and immerse them in imagery, in a world that only I have viewed, my own.