Drawing is my passion.

Inspired by photography, film and tv, I make translations, working from small images, increasing the size dramatically as I am most at home when making large drawings, where you can immerse yourself in the image.

I am drawn to diversity, and my work reflects this in both subject and colour.

Charcoal is elemental, it is raw and dirty, it creates the most intense blacks through to whisper greys and is one of the least processed of tools to draw with, when I am holding a stick of charcoal, there is an immediate connection to the material that I am making a mark with, I also use soft pastels with their rich array of pigments and differing textures, sometimes combining both charcoal, pastel or acrylic and other materials such as thread which I use for stitching, also needles within the same drawing.

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.

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