I am a painter: I exhibit regularly and have work in private collections as well as in museums and hospitals. In 2006, I completed my MA in Fine Art as a mature student at Middlesex University in 2006; I also have a degree in Education. In September 2016, I moved from London to Kessingland, a small beach village outside Lowestoft.

My paintings don’t seek to be a representation. The aerial works allude to the landscape from above: looking at a flat surface, they are diagrammatic, with no dimensions or horizon. I am concerned with how the finger of time leaves its mark in this changing world.

The images are drawn from the inconsistency of memory and the limits of imagination. This elusive world within memory is where particles of life disperse and cluster: looking through windows at partially obscured shadows, fragmented silhouettes revealing what is felt more than what is seen.

In my work, I concentrate on those moments between place and memory: a world where time is understood not as a linear narrative, but rather as a simultaneous bombardment of sensory perceptions. My landscape paintings are of imaginary spaces – sanctuaries preserved in memories, spaces we can access in times of discomfort and trouble.

I am interested in the convergence of the figurative and the abstract, and in evoking a feeling through the painting process. My current investigations are concerned with reframing the objectifying gaze at the female face: where the mask has fallen and she is subject, not object.