I prefer to think of myself not as an artist but as a creative individual. What I do is not so much making art, but researching ideas using a creative process. The outcome of my work is not important, the journey I take to get there is the crucial part for me. My creative practice is fueled by the cathartic and healing benefits I find comes from art – both viewing and making.

 

I don’t limit myself to a certain medium, preferring to work flexibly with whatever seems most suitable to the ideas I am working with. A lot of my inspiration comes from natural processes and the majority of my most successful work shows parts of nature in a way that is removed from its usual context so it can be seen from a new perspective.

 

My work touches on life in all stages, from the embryonic stage to the time of death – and even beyond. I am left speechless and humbled by relentless sublimity that life itself can hold. My work has captured the tiniest twitches and fleeting flickers of a single frogspawn before it has hatched. It has strained to show the deafening finality of death even in a mouse. I have shown the beauty that is within even the most repulsive stages of decay and how something new and wonderful can come from something thought to be beyond use. I endeavor to show the fragility and delicate nature of each and every life, no matter how proud, strong or fierce the subject might be.