My creative practice has journeyed through textiles, sculpture, illustration, print and painting. Today, I focus on painting, and infuse my work with the lessons of my multidisciplinary past; A love for textile craft and it’s historical importance for women, and the significance of my interest in illustration, as a way to capture the dark weight of humanity through comic forms. The figure appears in my work as character and abstracted form, as I examine the concept of the human experience through narrative and emotion. Repetition features heavily in my work, as a way to both reinforce the cyclical nature of life and the connectedness of all things. At the centre of my work is the principle that mind and body are not separate, nor does the mind rule the body. Feminist philosophy informs this intrinsic opposition to a patriarchal construct, which supports an age old system of male dominance over woman, and man’s plunder of nature. The political in my work meets the personal as I paint from the heart, intuitively mapping my unconscious self through playful gesture.