My current practice focuses on contemporary Japanese water-based woodblock printing, known as mokuhanga. This medium offers a visual language that beautifully balances traditional techniques with artistic expression. I am drawn to Mokuhanga’s use of natural materials, allowing me to create with a conscious appreciation for the environment. The process of carving woodblocks is slow and tactile, which appeals to my sculptural sensibility. I work in my studio in Winchester, where I take reflective walks along the River Itchen. These seasonal observations offer fleeting images of the landscape, which I store in my subconscious. They have inspired a new body of work titled Winchester Geese, informed through a more spontaneous conception than my previous geometric work. Ultimately the images emerge as interrelated shapes transient moments reduction printed using three woodblocks, creating transparent layers of water-based pigments on delicate Washi paper.

Alongside woodblock printmaking, I work in the medium of sculpture, exploring contained spaces and geometric forms. I feel that geometry provides a cognitive framework for the order I seek through simplicity, rhythm, and harmony. On reflection, perhaps geometry itself feels safe and contained. However, I am equally drawn to its archetypal resonance and modernist interpretation of natural forms. When combined with sound, my sculptures invite kinaesthetic and multi-sensory audience engagement, encouraging intuitive exploration through movement, interaction, and perception.

Since qualifying as an Art Psychotherapist, my practice has continued with an enquiry into contained spaces, and increasingly become self-reflective by working with Teatro Lambe Lambe, a miniature form of puppet theatre. This intimate, performative format allows for subtle storytelling and psychological depth through symbolic narrative and contained space.

Across all mediums, my work seeks to connect inner and outer worlds, offering the viewer moments of stillness, mystery and sensitivity.