Drawing is my passion, inspired by photography, film and tv, I make translations, working from small images, increasing the size dramatically.

There is something elemental about charcoal, it is one of the least processed of tools to draw with, when I am holding a stick of charcoal, I am connected to the material that I am making a mark with, I also use soft pastel sticks with their rich array of pigments, differing textures, sometimes combining both charcoal and pastel in the same drawing, sometimes also acrylic and other materials.

In my series of stitched works, I stitch pages of literature, novels, plays, newspapers such as the Financial Times and sheet music together to create a surface to draw on, these pages become integral to my work.

The process of stitching holds a personal significance for me, my mother was a seamstress, and my father made handbags. Stitching signifies, mending, patching, grafting and healing, connecting the disconnected.

I sometimes include the needles in my work and leave them to hang loose on the threads that are holding the paper together, reminding the viewer of the process the drawing has undergone.

In these drawings. the hard shine of the manufactured steel of the needle contrasts with the soft organic paper and threads that form the surface of the drawing. The stitching interrupts while informing the work with its own structure as it holds and connects the fragile pages together. The printed pages are both concealed and revealed by the process of drawing.

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