Translating from photography, film and tv, I enlarge small images to create large-scale drawings.

Drawing with charcoal and soft pastel, I also use other materials such as acrylic, thread and needles, which I use for stitching.

In my series of stitched works, I sew together selected pages from literature, novels, plays, newspapers, and sheet music to create meaningful surfaces on which to draw. 

These pages are integral to the work: there is a dialogue between the drawing and the selected text. Through the slow process of stitching, I reflect on the drawing that I will make which will both obscure and reveal the text beneath.

The Sakura series is drawn on the stocks and shares pages of the Financial Times or the Nikkei newspaper that I have stitched together. These works connect the transient beauty and spiritual richness of cherry blossom with the financial wealth represented by stocks and shares.

The process of stitching holds a personal significance for me, also my mother was a seamstress, and my father made handbags. 

Stitching signifies mending, patching, grafting, healing, connecting the disconnected.

My intention is to shine a light on the original while creating something new of my own.