Artist Statement

During an artist residency in St. Agnes on the Isles of Scilly, I spent a blissful day on the most perfect remote sunny beach, with a white seal pup for company. It felt like we were both waiting patiently for his mum to return from hunting. Quietly, deeply, I felt a universal truth, a feeling connected to everything. When confronted with the vastness, I looked to the rock pools to ground me, inspired by a friend's framed print by EQ Nicholson depicting a woodland rock study. I was seeking an objective reality that holds true across all contexts, cultures, and times, serving as an interconnected part of a larger whole. It was a unifying thread that stitched me to something so vast reminding us all that we are part of something greater. In North Norfolk, this truth appears in the saltmarsh and high-tides. Everything waits in time, seeing sunlight as well as the shadow.