Artist’s Statement

Enchantment acts as a powerful antidote to the anxieties of contemporary life.

When we spend time in nature, meditation or contemplation, something changes:

A cloud drifts silently on its own journey.  A spider spins her web that sparkles in the sun. The burn gurgles its way over the rocks; never the same from one second to another. The first buds of spring burst open across the city, transforming what was grey and barren into a living sea of green.

The wonder of nature and contemplation of things bigger than ourselves stops the internal whirring of our rational brain and connects us back to the sensory world and our animal feelings. It brings peace, curiosity, a sense of magic. Inner dread is replaced by calm.  We experience what it is to simply be. It frees us.

Through my art, I create space for contemplation and moments of wonder.

I’m influenced as much by the calm balance of Zen philosophy as by cutting-edge science that allows us to peer beyond the visible to see the magic of the underlying structure of nature and the universe.   What emerges is an abstract visual language that links the microscopic to the geological to the cosmic, and allows the viewer to engage their own imagination in their own moments of contemplation.