My paintings and drawings are driven by the finds and the objects I encounter on my journeys, as a result, chance plays a role in my eclectic sources of inspiration. In my works I play with vibrant colour and experimental mark making, allowing the image to find its own presence out of the creative process. For Untitled 2026, I will be exhibiting a specially curated show called ‘Where nature meets culture’ featuring the acrylic on linen paintings from my series ‘In between’ developed from the experience of visiting run down allotments in the former East Germany and drawings of plants from my series ‘Plant folio’ inspired by visits to the Berg-Garten and Herrenhausen gardens in Hannover.

In my show I ask the question – How much do we tame nature by cultivating it ? Does ‘nature’ win in the end ?

‘In between’

Picking my way around old alleyways and plots of neglected allotments in the former East Germany, I have felt the echo of voices, the warm earth and smell of ripening apples speaking of communities coming together, children playing and running wild, people trading plants and seeds, sharing coffee and cake in their own personal pavilions. ‘In between’ records the remnants of those lives, those stories and this place as a site of creativity, with what remains to tell the tale.

I use vibrant colour to embody the power of nature to persist over once tamed space, my experimental mark making and attention to ironwork, celebrates these allotment gates as creative works. Designed and made by unknown hands, they are no longer where they should be, having all been stolen, disappearing to be smelted and reused elsewhere.

‘Plant folio’

Using an illustrated catalogue of house plants, I added drawings of non-native plants from collections in botanical greenhouses and gardens in Germany. These drawings play on a number of themes – including the way in which plants are categorised, selected and travel as their own diaspora worldwide, due to human intervention. The tension between value and beauty, the question of human engineering and its impact on plants and the permission to enjoy nature as a domestic experience.

Drawings overlaid on a House Plant guide have been digitised, edited, printed and reworked, to make fusion drawings. Here the semblance of the original plants are re-envisioned as they make their visible path through my process, from book to paper to finally being hand finished again.

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