Works on paper

Cross-legged at the coffee table

2023

Ink & watercolour on Arches Aquarelle hot pressed watercolour paper. (A warm pale cream colour)

113cm x 137cm

Series: Anamnesis Unbroken (Au)

Cross-legged at the coffee table - it harks back to her personal history as a very young child, being taught how to draw from life. Some of the objects & in particular feathers she found in the garden distracted her from the precarious situation she was in.

This process of drawing objects from life has continued throughout her practice to this day & forms the core of each work.

The paper is left to curl at the bottom to imply the continuation of the lines & three dimensional aspect of the source & the hidden elements within it.

Teardrop

2023

Walnut ink on Arches Aquarelle hot pressed watercolour paper. (A warm pale cream colour)

110cm x 113cm

Series: Anamnesis Unbroken (Au)

Teardrop is a deeply personal piece about loss & grief - painted all in one colour, namely walnut ink. The sepia tones set it firmly in the past. It recalls yet moves on from the loss. However, little triggers pop up once in a while. The beautiful song this is named after is one of those triggers for the artist. The making of the work despite this was joyful. As the medium flowed so did the memory becoming light & fluid as it fades to outer edges.

Athenaeum

2023

Dry point etching, hand-coloured watercolour on Awagami Washi paper

Editon of 7 + 2AP’s

Image 10cm x 10cm / Paper approx 21cm x 30cm hand cut

Series: Anamnesis Unbroken (Au)

A library of thoughts reside in real time & space as well as the memory. Books provide an escape & a wonderland to explore. The etching is delicately hand coloured in watercolours to imply the fragile nature of memory whilst the palette shows the contrasting folds of the crushed drawing in a mosaic of shapes.

Plumed

2023

Dry point etching, hand-coloured watercolour on Awagami Washi paper

Editon of 7 + 2AP’s

Image 10cm x 10cm / Paper approx 21cm x 30cm hand cut

Series: Anamnesis Unbroken (Au)

Obsessively drawing feathers found by the artist as a young child is the starting point of the crushed drawing then rendered on copper in shades of red & pink.

Birch

2023

Dry point etching, hand-coloured watercolour on Awagami Washi paper

Editon of 7 + 2AP’s

Image 10cm x 10cm / Paper approx 21cm x 30cm hand cut

Series: Anamnesis Unbroken (Au)

A silver birch tree sat outside the house providing a high vantage point to the artist when she needed to get away, which all backfired on one fateful day. It is rendered then crushed before drawn in drypoint on a copper plate.

Your Hands

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Photogravure on Awagami Washi paper

Editon of 5 + 2AP's

A diptych of two connected memories of a loved ones hands following their passing. The break in the image reflects the separation of two souls still bound by fractured recollections of their intimate tie together. The left plate is inked in softer tones to display the drifting apart between the world of the living & that of the dead.

Cross Stitched

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Photogravure on Awagami Washi paper

Editon of 5 + 2AP's

This photogravure (photo etching) was created from an intricate work made with a combination of woven paper, masking tape & compressed charcoal. These 'cut ups’ are visibly pierced & punctured as intertwining words are rendered into a sea of letters, their original narratives no longer visible.

Cross Stitched Ghost

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Photogravure on Awagami Washi paper

Editon of 5 + 2AP's

This photogravure is printed as a secondary print after the printing of each of the Cross Stitched prints. The ‘ghost’ of the original photo etching recedes into the paper i softer tones than the original to represent the narrative & memory of it fading away.

Tome I

Graphite on Somerset paper

This is one of the first books exploring the themes of memory - specifically anamnesis.

The square format allows the mind’s eye to follow its natural instinct to square the point of action without peripheral distractions.

Tome II

Ink on Reeves paper

This weighty tome is rendered in layers of ink. Items inside or obstructing the book are purposefully left out. The negative space which surrounds the oject is of equal importance.

Tome III

Charcoal & chalk on paper

Books from works of art appear interrupted as objects in the source material are omitted. In becoming the subject their previous use as part of the story becomes the whole story. Gaps left invite viewers to fill them with their own ideas.

Honeymoon in Rome Piazza della Rotunda

2015

Japanese ink on hot pressed watercolour paper.

An ink drawing of the busy scenic centre of Rome where locals & visitors gather to drink & watch the world go by in the Piazza della Rotunda.

Rose Jug

2015

Watercolour on paper

Print: Hannemülle Photo Rag

Edition 10 + 1AP - 21 x 29.7cm

Edition of 10 + 1AP - 29.7 x 42cm

A vintage jug painted at a cafe in London.

Passion fruit skins

2014

Ink on 3D paper.

The 3D paper compliments the geometric interiors of passion fruit skins. When viewed in the flesh the 3D effect is dynamic.

Glare

2015

Ink on watercolour paper

Series: Auto Retrato

You talk too much, listen to me.

2015

Ink on watercolour paper

Series: Auto Retrato

Untitled

2015

Ink on watercolour paper

Series: Auto Retrato

Drawn on

2015

Ink on watercolour paper

Series: Auto Retrato

Safe

2015

Ink & collage on watercolour paper

Series: Auto Retrato

Two minds

2015

Ink on watercolour paper

Series: Auto Retrato

Slip under your coat

2015

Ink on watercolour paper

Series: Auto Retrato

Self Portrait 1997

1997

Charcoal, chalk & pastel on paper

Fabric minus Doll

1998

Oil & graphite on paper

A study for a painted depiction of Mary in The Cave with fabric draped over a doll. This later inspired the collage Mary minus Fabric in 2019.

Hanging on

1995

Charcoal & chalk on paper

A life drawing of man outside hanging onto the branch of a tree in the bush in New South Wales, Australia - using some of the charcoal from the forest floor after the area had been cleared by back burning.

Matt White / Jesus Matt

1997

Charcoal on paper

Matt White had a the perfect name for a painter & the nickname ‘Jesus Matt’.