I am a visual artist based in Cornwall. In its broadest sense, my work is about the living landscape and our relationship with it. My most recent work incorporates items collected on walks across the fields or by the sea. I am interested the customs, routines, stories and mythologies surrounding our relationship with the land and the elements. I use a range of media which include assemblage, found objects, painting, photography, video, and installation. Along with developing my own explorations, I work collaboratively with other artists, including writers and musicians. I am currently working on a project about the land with award winning poet Katrina Naomi. Go to the section ‘The deer path’ to see what we’ve been doing.

AUTUMN 2026 UPDATE:

‘Soil Devil’, one of the pieces that has emerged from the project with Katrina, was shown in ANIMA/ at Arch 2.3, Hackney Downs Studios, London Sept 17th to 20th. Maia Rakovic, ANIMA/’s curator invited ‘…artists of all mediums to submit works exploring the post- non- semi- and trans- human animal. Through figurative works, we ask how the body can be opened, transformed, challenged, or metamorphosised…This exhibition is a love letter to the creatural method. Through painting, sculpture, photography, and multi-media works, we welcome audiences to sit beside the animal and explore what relationships we may uncover – with both the outer and inner animals in our lives. Anima/ is a space of freedom and discomfort, where the human form is malleable and transcendent and bestial and trans and beautiful and terrifying…’

To read the Q&A interview with Maia, ANIMA/ curator, about 'Soil Devil' and how it fits my practice, click here.











Newlyn Society of Artists Autumn Show is now open at the Penwith Gallery St Ives. It runs till October 24th and I'm very pleased to be part of it, showing these two pieces 'Field Packed for Freshness' and'The Deer Path'








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