For over three decades, alongside a career in arts education and exhibition development, I have been expanding my painting and drawing practice. In 2021, this led to the completion of a Doctorate of Visual Arts, with a focus on history and environmental themes – specifically semi abstract landscapes.

My fascination with these ideas has its foundation in my childhood, when I took long sea journeys with my mother, to and from England, visiting lands I’d only imagined. They continued to develop and take shape as memory-maps, tracing the parameters of global environmental anxiety. Visions, informed by large expanses of land and water, and the infinity of the night sky, are of particular interest to me.

My father’s engineering works also influenced my ideas through my constant exposure to technical drawings rendered by hand. I went on to study technical drawing myself, and the elements of fine line graphic renderings are integrated into many of my landscape works. I feel that the linear component is my response to both historical ways of capturing the landscape and as a form of contemporary mapping that reflects on the anxious world humans now inhabit. The line renderings extend to cartography, including lines of latitude and longitude. I am interested in the ways humans have named and claimed the globe through physical explorations and expansive ways of viewing the world – by a desire to define the land, sea, and sky.