Paintings 2024/25
…return to a world of English and Northern European folk traditions, faerie painting and botanical art. With references to the female patients of the Paris Saltpetrière, Till Eulenspiegl, the silhouettes of Lotte Reiniger, Old English folk tales and Edwardian women illustrators. This is a world of intuition and anti-reason.
EM 2025
Paintings 2024/5
Grotesque, sad and noble, the octopus has a feeling brain in every tentacle.
These works come from a different place, a more interior place. Whilst Crossings and Surrey Homes consider the world as divided by boundaries, in these Octopus works the female protagonist, with eyes closed, appears to soar above it.
Floating in sea or space, she is perhaps a response to the period when I was unable to move physically freely. But still freedom of imagination remains.
EM 2025
Paintings 2025
I am struck by the way a veil separates the wearer from the world around, makes them unseen (and unheard). In another way, the wearer is turned inwards and can be attending to an interior world.
EM 2025
Paintings 2024/5
July 2025. I am sitting in a café in Surrey, on what was once the A3, but is now a quiet no-through road leading to The Devil’s Punchbowl. I am wondering why I’ve returned and what connects my paintings, not just recently, but in the long-term. By contrast, earlier this morning, I drove 25 minutes up the road from my home to The Bell Hotel in Epping. Though quiet this morning, over the last couple of weeks the The Bell has been the site of demonstrations. These follow the arrest of a resident at the hotel. The demonstrators include people wrapped in the flag of St George, often used to represent English nationalism.
EM 2025
Paintings 2024/25
I thought about the way in which the human race creates edges to lock people in or out. And by the extraordinary hardships of people around the world both in staying and in going. The struggles we all face, big and small. These paintings are taken from the film *Beyond Utopia, directed by Ann Shin.
EM 2025
Drawings 2024/25
Inspired by the imagined world of conspiracy theorists and painted with a graphite solution on paper, the ‘Miracles’ drawings mix footage of esoteric ceremonies with skies from Medieval ‘Books of Hours’…
EM 2024
Paintings 2024/25
There had been snowfall….I had the sense that a presence of some kind might be just imaginable. There may be ghosts of the dancers and the piper of the Stranger paintings.
EM 2024
