• Pink background with patches of lighter pink formed using salt. The dots and sections created have then been drawn around to make island shapes across the background. The bottom third of the painting is solid black shape like mountains.

    What Takes Root, 2025

    Acrylic Ink, salt & marker pen on gesso-primed cradled wood, 841 × 594 mm

    “Care became a shared practice.
    Through uncertainty and change, people chose connection over extraction and something resilient was able to take hold.”

  • Dark green background with pale yellow paint dragged across the painting on the right hand side. Fromm the top left black fine roots are painted on top of the green.

    Within Limits, 2023

    Acrylic on gesso-primed cradled wood
    254 × 254 mm

    “As people learned to live with enough, a deeper sense of belonging emerged.
    Connection replaced scarcity and lives became less defined by excess.”

  • Bright pink and yellow paint blocks of paint in varying thickness with a dark blue painting of roots reaching across the painting on top of the coloured locks

    What Remains Connected, 2023

    Acrylic on gesso-primed cradled wood, 594 x 420mm.

    “People stopped seeing themselves as separate to or above nature.
    They learnt to work with nature.
    A strong rewilding movement followed.”

  • Painting with blues, greens and yellows. Roots, seed and map like islands drawn in marker pen.

    Common Ground, 2025

    Acrylic Ink, salt and marker pen on gesso-primed cradled wood, 841 × 594 mm.

    “Communities took ownership of land to grow food and improve biodiversity.
    Access to common land increased significantly.”

  • Creative Scotland Funded Visual Artist and Craft maker Award, VACMA 2026

    Visual Artist and Craft Maker Award 2026

    This Creative Scotland award is for a period of research, training and experimentation with natural pigments, something I’ve been wanting to explore for a long time.

  • Radiating Connections research and development art project, place-based, collaboration, networks, process, art practice.

    Radiating Connections

    Excited to share I have been awarded Arts Council England funding to begin a new research & development project. Exploring how place-based creative practice can link people, materials and landscapes across the UK.

Exhibitions:

Culture on Campus: Considering the Climate Crisis - 26th January - 17th May 2026.
Macrobert Arts Centre, University of Stirling Campus.

Invited to exhibit my work in this annual exhibition. The Culture on Campus initiative is a collaboration project between the University of Stirling Art Collection, University Archives and Macrobert Arts Centre to develop a creative environment where creative thinking and creative acts are at the heart of our identity on a learning campus.