I use colour, hidden layers, transparency, erasure and gestural marks to celebrate the mundane, repetitive, messy, intimate, complex and often invisible work of family life.
I explore the visual language of abstract expressionism because of it’s association with machismo and it’s high cultural value, and I try to playfully apply a contemporary feminist lens. Emptying the dishwasher, sorting PE kits, organising childcare, remembering birthdays, writing shopping lists, wiping hands, bums, surfaces, tears, aren’t the usual preoccupations of Fine Art, but they deserve to be. I try to assert the hidden value and beauty of these physical, emotional and cognitive loads which underpin our lives and economies.
Good Enough? (Green), 2022
Oil on unbleached linen, 76x61cm
Open Framed
The Idea of Goodness (after Carol Shields)
Oil on Gesso Board, 2022
30cm x 30cm - SOLD
Selected for the Royal Academy Summer Show 2023
Prams in Hallways, 2023
Acrylic & charcoal on canvas
39x28cm – open framed
Shortlisted for Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2024
Good Enough? (Blue), 2022
Oil on unbleached linen
76x61cm Open Framed
Flourishing, 2023
Oil paint & charcoal on linen
54x64cm – open framed
SOLD
Where You Are, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
30x30cm (open framed)
SOLD
What Else Can I Do, 2023
Acrylic on gesso board
40x40cm, open framed
SOLD
Surface Pressure, 2023
Acrylic on board
50x50cm (open framed)
Almost There, 2023
Acrylic on board
40x40cm (open framed)
Early Morning Must Do List, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
100x100cm
The Weight of Small Things, 2023
Oil paint on gesso board
30x30cm, open framed
SOLD
Middle of the Night To Do List, 2023
Oil paint on gesso panel
28x28cm – open framed
SOLD
Nature Nurturer, 2023
Oil paint on gesso panel
28x28cm – open framed
SOLD
Bringing the Wrong Snack, 2023
Acrylic on gesso board
36.5x36.5cm - open box framed
SOLD
The Constant Flux of Matter, 2023
Acrylic on gesso board
36.5x36.5cm - open box framed
SOLD
Flotsam & Jetsam, 2023
Acrylic, ink & charcoal on panel
44x44cm – open framed
SOLD
Whose Socks are Whose?, 2023
Oil paint on gesso panel
28x28cm – open framed
SOLD
The Yellow Wallpaper, 2023
Acrylic & pastel on canvas
39x28cm – open framed
Holding it Together
Oil on Gesso Board, 2022
30x30cm
SOLD
Untitled (with dioxizine purple)
Oil on Gesso board, 2022
30x30cm
SOLD
Colour Study 11, 2022
Oil on 5x7” Gesso Board
23.5 x 28.5cm open framed
Colour Study 10
Oil on 5x7” Gesso board
SOLD
Colour Study 4, 2022
Oil on 5x7” gesso board
Colour Study 7, 2022
Oil on 5x7” gesso board
SOLD
Colour Study 6, 2022
Oil on 5x7” gesso board
SOLD
Colour Study 3, 2022
Oil on 5x7” gesso board
SOLD
Colour Study 1, 2022
Oil on 5x7” gesso board
SOLD
Colour Study 5, 2022
Oil on 5x7” gesso board
SOLD
I’ve been making repetitive line drawings for over a decade. They are each hand-drawn with ink on paper and are quiet meditations on the invisible work that so many women do to keep homes and families running smoothly.
The drawings are simple. They are a repetition of individual lines. Each line is similar but unique. Like the work involved in domestic life, they are mundane, familiar, often boring. But for me something interesting happens in repeating the act over and over. Like the never-ending task of wiping (surfaces, hands, bums, tears…), the act of repetition, performed day-in-day- out, creates a kind of intimacy. The cumulative effect of a simple task done (mostly!) with patience turns the ordinary into something valuable and unique.
Hiatus II, 2022
Black ink on china white acid-free paper
59 x 84cm framed [SOLD]
Swish, 2022
White ink on gun-metal blue acid-free paper
59 x 84cm framed
SOLD
Peek, 2019
White ink drawing on grey acid-free paper
92 x 71cm Framed [£500]
Feeling Ragged, 2022
White ink on grey acid-free paper
73 x 53cm Framed
£425
Interval, 2019
Black in drawing on white acid-free paper
88.5 x 68cm Framed [£500]
Ripple, 2019
Black ink drawing on white acid-free paper
62 x 87cm Framed
SOLD
Are we nearly there yet?, 2020
White ink on graphite grey acid-free card
60 x 40cm framed
SOLD
Torn, 2019
Black ink drawing on white acid-free paper
68 x 88cm framed
SOLD
Curtain Call, 2020
black ink on white paper
40 x 40cm framed
SOLD
Yesterday, 2020
Black ink on off-white acid-free paper
52 x 52cm framed
SOLD
Glimpse, 2019
White ink drawing on grey acid-free paper
71 x 92cm Framed
SOLD
Hiatus, 2019
Black ink drawing on cream acid-free paper
62 x 87cm Framed
SOLD
Hush-hush, 2019
Black ink drawing on cream acid-free paper
78 x 64cm Framed [£510]
SOLD
Breeze, 2019
Black ink drawing on cream acid-free paper
78 x 64cm framed
£510
SOLD
Line Drawing, 2017
White ink on dark grey paper
[sold]
Murmur, 2019
Black ink drawing on cream acid-free paper
78 x 64cm Framed
SOLD
Line drawing, 2012
Black ink line drawing on white paper
[sold]
Line Drawing, 2017
White ink line drawing on brown paper
[sold]
Line Drawing, 2018
White ink on dark grey paper
32 x 42cm Framed [Sold]