Artist Statement
Fertile Ground

The ocean is the mother of us all. Life begins in water. Salty water surrounds us in utero which is not so different from the experience of ocean creatures floating, carried along and nurtured in sacs and tide pools. All contain mysteries within. Fertile Ground represents a group of new paintings on paper from 2009.

My work focuses on exploring organic forms in nature - particularly the ways in which they reflect and echo one another in widely varying scale and context creating an ambiguity which challenges the viewer to bring personal associations to each piece. Moving between representation and abstraction, the work explores landscape and the body in deeply personal ways.