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 attracted to the ethical nature of mokuhanga and its use of natural materials, including wood, water-based pigments, and handmade paper. My background as a sculptor, where I prefer to work with hand tools, gives me a strong understanding of the carving process. As an artist, I follow the sosaku hanga (creative prints) method of undertake the full process from creating design to printing. In my earlier work, I was able to translate abstract geometric ideas alongside themes drawn from Jungian alchemy. While abstraction remains my primary focus, my current technique involves reduction printing. During this process, I interrupt the printing midway and carve back into the original block, allowing me to create layers of colour and rich textures. This method aligns with my trust in unconscious experiences, a process I have developed through art psychotherapy. I begin each piece with intuitive mark-making, inspired by the sounds, music, and sensory impressions I gather while walking from my studio along the River Itchen, up St. Catherine’s Hill, or through the city of Winchester. Ultimately, the images emerge as interconnected shapes, which I sensitively layer like a collage, capturing transient moments in coloured 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, and drawing from art psychotherapy, 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 through working on a project using 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.