About

I was raised in the heavily industrialized South Wales Valleys, living in the shadow of the inert coal mining industry and ironworks that once prevailed there. My relationship with the natural environment has been a constant inspiration to my practice. I have since lived in Bristol (England), Cumbria (England), Glasgow (Scotland), Vancouver Island (Canada), Aniak (Alaska), San Francisco (California), and Eugene (Oregon).

My early work examined subjects including religious indoctrination and its relationship with architecture, the push and pull between power and dignity, the absurd nature of existence, and the evolution of the roles of parent and child over a lifetime.

My current practice focuses on the void created by the experience of grief in the absence of a religious or spiritual belief structure. I explore personal geography; our connection with the natural environment in the absence of god; awe and its effect on the grieving brain; the flux and relationship between grief, memory, and time.