Apr 1, 2026
I’m looking at three trays of silk/metal dupion forms, prepared and ready for the fire. What began as a very beautiful fabric has, through a series of interventions, been taken somewhere quite different. Beauty – destruction – re-emergence. This process has become...
Dec 8, 2025
And then there’s this one………………. It brings it all back home, back to ageing. My own ageing experience is exposing a side I’d have preferred to remain hidden – vulnerability. Working as authentically as I can, now feels absolutely right at this time in my...
Sep 4, 2025
There’s something quietly radical in inviting fire into your creative work. When I first brought it into my practice during my PhD, it was about elimination. I wanted to burn things away, to leave nothing behind. But the materials resisted. Metal threads clung to...
Mar 1, 2025
From time to time, some of the macro images I create of my evolving series of silk ‘forms’ are so small and precious, yet for the most part, remain unseen by anyone apart from me. Maybe they’re just...
Nov 4, 2024
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m using photography to look deeper into what I’m creating in the studio. Because of the images this way of seeing is presenting to me, the artist and the viewer, one of the areas I am exploring is the relationship...
