Edge Lands: Fluid Boundaries (4)

A recent Masters graduate in Contemporary Art Practice from Plymouth University, I have exhibited in the South West of England, London and Singapore. I have spent time working with Natural England with a residency on the edge of Dartmoor and am a keen walker and runner with a passion for landscape in all its forms and how we move thorough and interact with it; from moorland and coast to cityscapes and industrial.

The underlying focus of my art practice is our historical, current and future relationships with our environment; the traces we leave and the fragile balance between control and chaos that is always evident. I often respond to specific places and have current projects on-going across sites in South West England and North Wales.

I feel that I am lucky in that I am allowed to push boundaries and imagination, think laterally and playwith ideas, materials, words - whatever I want to really. Anything goes and there are always more possibilities to explore. My creative practice is now an integral part of who I am and, if I'm not spending enough time playing, solving creative puzzles and investigating ideas then I'm getting something wrong.

I am primarily a painter and drawer, but write and build things too. My work tends to evolve from the site itself, my on-going research and by playing with and developing each piece until it is complete.

One of an on-going series of work that explores the edges of landscapes. The Fluid Boundaries series plays with the spaces where a city, in this case Plymouth, meets the sea. A balance of water and construction.

Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas

61x61cm

Framed in an Open Frame