Oscar Wilde
I am
motivated and inspired by the world around me, by boundaries – internal and external, by cycles and by entropy.
My work starts intuitively, gathering images around a theme and reassembling until I have created a balanced and beautiful whole.
The themes are often around nature and science, death and decay, bodies and rebirth, sense of place and taboo. I love metaphor and twisted language.
I work
with paper, thread and ink, testing styles and discovering the versatility of the mediums.
I enjoy the challenge of working without colour or brushstroke, to create emotion, life and atmosphere from the neutral palette.
I use the stippling and the stitching as a way to create more subtle gradations, textures, and a softer finish.
The limitations of the medium force me to strip away any artifice.
I believe
that art cannot be created in a vacuum, it takes communication, inspiration and external input from many sources.
And while good art comes from perseverance and discipline, I believe that good ideas come from people.