My practice is concerned with the poetry of the everyday. I am interested in the landscape in which the epic of daily drama unfolds, I am drawn to the sculptural, compositional and cultural qualities of my own environment. The play of light on surface, colour, spatial relationships between unremarkable objects and the implicit and ambiguous metaphor these combined elements can evoke. Currently I am drawn to how I might capture the infinite subtlety inherent within the structures to plants and flowers, and then how I can represent and express their forms through drawing and paint. 

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