About My Work

From clothing to coastlines, I transform discarded textiles into contemporary seascapes — exploring the tension between human construction and the natural flow of the ocean.

For twenty years I worked within the fashion industry as a retail buyer, immersed in fabric, production and visual storytelling. Over time, I witnessed the environmental impact of large-scale clothing manufacture and overconsumption. That experience now underpins my practice.

Textiles represent industry, structure and human intervention, but they also hold intimacy, memory and touch. In my studio, I reclaim fabric waste and rework it into layered coastal works, embedding frayed fibres, salvaged cloth, ghost nets and surfboard fibreglass into paint. Rigid materials are softened and made to move like water.

To me, cloth and landscape are deeply connected - both shaped by pressure, time and memory.

The ocean remains my anchor. It is a place of containment and release. Of tension and tranquillity. While my work often evokes stillness, it carries an undercurrent of transformation - materials once associated with excess becoming objects of permanence and reflection.

Many of my commissions incorporate personal materials: fragments of wedding dresses, childhood garments, rope from a favourite cove. These pieces move beyond depiction; they become vessels for lived experience, where structure, memory and movement meet.

Alongside my studio practice, I lead creative experiences rooted in the same belief - that making with our hands reconnects us to presence. Whether through a painting or a shared session, my work invites a slower kind of looking. A closer kind of feeling.

I am interested in what we choose to preserve. What we discard. And how material - like the tide - can always be reimagined.