The world is so full at times I feel it overwhelms me. So much beauty in contrast to so much horror. Assimilating the world and it filling my head drives me to create and express it in my own way, to release some of the tension caused by thought and the hugeness of it all.
Linking everything in the world, man made or natural is it's 3d sculptural form, hence I chose as an artist to work in this form, for it's familiarity to us as human beings.
My work is a physical manifestation created by my inner, emotional, if not at times childish, self. Using myself as a starting point, I explore human experience, existence and immortality. I use found natural and domestic objects as my sculptural medium, as they encourage questioning from the viewer by communicating a message of their own as well as telling my story. Be it wood or plastic, inanimate or well loved, ugly or beauty full, each has had a past life and is full of meaning, often jarring memories and creating new ones.
For the past few years my I have worked mainly in driftwood. It is full of history, natural line and form which have intrigued me and I have loved it like my own. However it has turned me into a great collector of anything on the ground, in a skip on the beach etc. and I am now finding there is a wealth of found objects around me, all needing new life breathing into them. I have now began detailing each objects history and finding place, to remember its past in order to make way for its future. This providence is the shape of things to come, more stories, more questions and yes, more junk.