Thought and memory move like the flight of a bird; unrestrained, unpredictable, miraculous, leaving imprints on our inner world. In my work I have always been pulled to the inner life, how we are fragmented and always in motion like the tides. We move between our inner worlds and the world around us, reordering ourselves, living in all directions, timeless.

My work leans into this, capturing multitudes of moments, our markers in time, our through-line gently carving out an inner path with its signs and signals. In my paintings, words, lines and marks create a kind of visual stream-of-consciousness; they run like bedrock beneath the surface, laid out like inner nautical charts mapping our layers; gauging, measuring, telling of warnings and safe passage; an inner guidance system, intuition. The paintings are an interplay of memory, thought and nature, our fragmented lived moments running through us like a river, becoming us, without the noise of digital interference numbing us, silencing our stories.

I come to painting with a need to express the importance of our inner life, intuition and being in nature for our sense of self and wellbeing. Returning to the studio each day to wrestle with the creative process, mining and excavating, I hope to capture some of my through-line, some sense of the unknown we all hold, with the hope of building a kind of holding space in the work; a solid but ever-changing river the viewer can see themselves reflected in. The inner life made visible - a bird flitting in and out of view, high up, almost out of sight, out of reach, but always wholly present.