Since 1989 my paintings have typically focused on literal and lyrical allegorical expressions of my surroundings: the “Dancing monks of Bhutan” and “Chinese Opera  performers of the Pear Garden” (from the years of living in Asia) to the aquas light of the “Swimming pools”  in LA, and the “Joshua Tree Rock Formations” of the Mojave Desert.

I started sculpting when I got pregnant with my son in my 30’s, no longer able to journey across lands I began to journey across surfaces and found the subjects within the stone. I studied ornamental and architectural stone carving at the City and Guilds art school in London whilst pregnant with both my children, and finished the degree with two kids and a body of work. I moved to LA and my works became based around my children and the disruption of motherhood. Large scale works of incandescent blue light –“the pool series” and the disintegration of form in water showed up in both canvas and in stone. As my kids got a bit older I was able to travel again and worked on a large series of landscapes based on the rock formations of Joshua Tree. My most recent work is monolithic ceramic sculptures “Landscapes of the mind Dreamscapes and scholar stones”.

Stones and their presence have been a preoccupation of mine since I was a small child. Forever I’ve been fascinated with what is held within a stone, what stories or spirit or captured time is represented. Throughout history man has related to stones – for tools, for art, for monuments, for ancestor worship and celestial notations.  It is with these precepts that I explore the forms I create in clay and stone with my latest series based on nocturnal journeys. The landscape and geomorphology of my dreams are presented within the principles of Chinese Scholar stones. Sometimes known as Suiseki (Japanese Sui= water Seki=stone), they are naturally formed stones that have the power and beauty to suggest a scene from nature. Using different clay bodies and a range of glazes, my endless resource of dream recall and the archetypal significance of the chorography

In 2015 I got my first memorial commission, a beautiful Pink Marble headstone with a carved Tree of life.  The experience of creating something not only for the grieving but also for the departed was a deeply profound and moving experience and one that I have turned to as I have continued creating memorials, headstones, totems, statues and busts. I created a bespoke memorial company called Digitalandstone  and The Tree of Life Memorials, it is a sacred place in digital form, somewhere to preserve the memories, conserve the land, and connect the souls through creative story capture, environmental legacy and fine art memorials.

Works in Corporate and Private Collections, featured in International Auctions and Charity events:

Paintings,drawings, sculptures and photographs are in numerous collections in Hong Kong, America, Britain, China, India, Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Gibraltar, South Africa, France and Bermuda.