Artist Statement

My work tends to explore the animal world, producing narrative installations, drawings and prints. I travel to specific habitats to study and document animals in their natural or naturalized state. These grant-funded research studies include feral goat herds on Scotland’s Isle of Rhum, the Lammergeier (Bearded Vulture) in the Spanish Pyrenees, Caribbean Reef Sharks in the Bahamas, and Texas Longhorn Cattle in Houston Texas, and at the NASA Johnson Space Center’s Longhorn Project.

Direct observation fosters a more complete understanding of each animal and its environment.
This research-based work inspires me to weave multi-layered contexts into specific settings, allowing conversations including habitat displacement and climate change.
Materials I use to create the sculpture and settings are often salvaged from domestic life, recycling a recognizable history to provide unexpected connections to the animal world.
Recent Work:
In the months before Covid 19 restricted travel, my focus shifted to a wall series based on Mayan and Aztec Codices studied in Mexico City’s Anthropology Museum. These highly detailed, painted manuscripts document bloodlines, history, science and sacred rituals. They inspired a new form of narrative landscapes exploring my own generational family passages in England, Mexico and the United States.