My drawings are translations of photography, film, and tv.
Working with charcoal and soft pastel, I enlarge small source images to create large-scale drawings.

I use a combination of charcoal, soft pastels, acrylic, and other materials, including thread and needles, which I use for stitching.
In my series of stitched works, I sew together pages from literature, novels, plays, newspapers, and sheet music to create surfaces on which to draw. These pages become integral to the work: there is a dialogue between the drawing and the selected text. Through the slow process of stitching, I contemplate the drawing that I will make which obscures and reveals the text beneath.
The Sakura series is drawn on pages of the Financial Times newspaper that have been stitched together. The work connects the transient beauty and spiritual richness of cherry blossom with the financial wealth represented by stocks and shares.
The process of stitching holds personal significance for me. My mother was a seamstress, and my father made handbags. Stitching signifies mending, patching, grafting, healing, and reconnecting what has been disconnected.
My intention is to illuminate the original source while creating something new of my own.