​My work frequently intends political evocation: a memorial to the oppression or suppression of one’s mark. This incorporates a personal connection to how one’s own history of art making, including as a child, influences what one can and cannot ‘make’ and explores the personal and societal impact of institutionalisation. I am interested in materials such as tissue, pva and wire which evoke a gentle, ethereal presence but which can also appear, paradoxically, strong and evocative.  Morphing between abstract and representational, figures appear like shells, revenants of someone once present. I sometimes  slow down the drying out process deliberately, sometimes over many weeks, so that sculptures remain sticky and pick up debris while wire becomes rusted.  The erosion, grubbiness, impurity and apparently insignificant or unintended blemishes reflect traces and fragments of how life often is: hidden, messy.

I increasingly draw and paint.  Sometimes simply  making spontaneous marks on anything to hand. I have filmed and exhibited these ‘performances’. Results are raw but imbued, I hope, with personal emotional resonance, demonstrating the human need to make our mark whatever our circumstances.
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More About Me.


​MA in Fine Art: Merit. OCA & University for the Creative Arts. 

MA in Gender  Studies. 

Work as: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Group Analytic Psychotherapist & Art Psychotherapist in private practice, higher education & charity settings & as a Foster Carer. 

Once worked in the : NHS Adult Psychiatry as Nurse, Psychotherapist, Art Psychotherapist & ​Goldsmiths College, London University as  Lecturer on Art Psychotherapy courses. 











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