Art that helps push through difficult emotions to find peace

About me & my work

Born and bred in the North West of England, I was surrounded by sentimental trinkets, and stories that still have an influence on my view of the world today.

The work I make speaks to the tension between beauty and brokenness and the fragility found in strength and vice versa. I actively invite viewers to confront discomfort, in the hope that they will experience a connection with their own innermost thoughts and feelings.

I tend to use dolls (both old and new), old photos, vintage fabric and wallpaper designs as metaphors for memory, trauma, and emotional resilience. In doing so, I aim to provide a visual context to facilitate a deeper connection and understanding of our shared histories; creating artworks rooted in lived experience. I like to explore themes of identity, nostalgia, social class, and survival, firstly as a way to manage my own emotions but also to hopefully help those like me, who are perhaps seeking solace and comfort via the things we hold dear yet live on the periphery of our busy lives.

In the subject matter I choose, I aim to evoke emotions via metaphors that, simultaneously, seem both fragile and defiant, not only as testament to my own fortitude and emotional strength but for anyone who has ever felt sidelined, ignored or generally invisible. I am interested in the power of objects to hold memory, to disturb and to comfort, and to challenge what is considered valuable or worthy. Through this lens, I offer artworks that are at once emotionally raw and quietly defiant - vulnerable yet resilient.

Some of my work is indeed difficult to look at and is certainly challenging but hopefully, beauty can be found for most in the fragility of its spirit.

I currently live and work in the beautiful historic City of Chester and I am enjoying a fruitful term as Artist in Residence at the University.

Current AA2A Artist-in-Residence

Get In Touch With Me

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