Translating, focusing on variation, shifting from one media to another, translating from various media such as photography, film and tv, altering the scale, altering the medium and often increasing the size dramatically. 

Incorporating written literature, novels, newspapers such as the FT and sheet music into my work as a surface to work on and using stitching to connect the pages together has both personal and gender significance. 

I take my inspiration from the works of many photographers both past and present, from Atget through to Winogrand including the contemporary photographer Tokihiro Sato to name a few.

I often revisit images, working in series, Tokihiro Sato has been kind enough to give me permission to work form his photographs, his magical lit woodland photographs were taken in the ancient Japanese beech forests in northern Japan, Shirakami-Sanchi, a Uniseco World Heritage site.

Drawing has been my primary way of working for many years now, 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 and now to explore variation further I return to painting.

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