What influences my work is a deep love of nature and my fascination with the beauty there, the rhythms from forms I find when I am immersed drawing plein air. My Celtic heritage emphasizes a deep respect and love for nature with a view that the earth is sacred and interconnected. My muse is the random movements of the butterfly in garden spaces which transport me . Movement I connect with intensely as I think because of my past as a classical ballet dancer and having spent some time at the National Ballet School. These are spaces where I feel transformed by the beauty that surrounds me, my senses filled with the experience, revitalized, energized yet calm, where I drift into becoming apart of the whole immersive experience. Therefore the butterflies forms are a large part of my visual language to communicate in my conceptual artworks.

These new series embody my beliefs in a loving mindset as a way of being. Whatever I am reading and experiencing also informs the work: philosophy, quantum physics, psychology, biology and history. I believe in Individuation or Self-actualization as defined by Carl Jung as the Self and the key first step to a loving way of being. When you can be aware of who you really are and love yourself only then are you truly able to look out to another with a loving mindset, that is not judgemental or biased, but open. It allows a perspective and possibilities to emerge in order to connect to others, nature and our humanity.

I also believe there is so much more beyond our understanding and quantum physics is opening new avenues of thought and research about the power of our conscious and unconscious selves and the interconnectedness to the universe, from the deeper cellular structures and our origins. Things like brain wave functions and superpositions of states so much to learn which makes life so fascinating. I think curiosity is essential to a wonderfully fulfilling life, to understand more about the world and self. All is one.

My process combines analogue and digital exploration which offers an expanded play of layering, opacity and bright colours. The light within the digital is so expansive and magical, reminds me of when I see light in nature sparkling across water, so many colours present its mind blowing.

My visual language captures the vitality and energies as an expression of experiences and how they make me feel as I flow freely to create, staying present in the work.

“Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.”

(Carl Jung).

I will be at the Miami Art Fair at CONTEXT with Alessandro Berni Gallery Dec 3-8 2024.

Commissions are welcome.