"I use a range of media including video, painting, wood carving and printmaking. The imagery explores the relationship between fantasy and lived experience and the locations in which these two worlds collide. I am interested in the uncanny, the half-alive. I suppose this is what has drawn me repeatedly to puppets, their fetish quality completely disarms me.

There are also certain spaces in which auratic power jostles with physicality; the garden, for example, is alive with symbolism as well as plants. Being in the presence of something borderline makes one wonder whether one actually is alive, and what that actually means.

A sense of otherness dances around religious objects and locations. Through my experiences as artist-in-residence at Gloucester Cathedral; Bardsey Island and Shaftesbury Abbey I have been able to investigate the relationship between spirituality and the physical world. I am particularly interested in the idea of the body housing the soul, or the public facade housing the private interior world. Though the division is comforting, it is tense because there is always the threat (or the ecstasy?) of the wall breaking down."

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