My Work
My practice centres around Lyme Regis and the Jurassic coast in Dorset. Through my work I endeavour to depict the beauty and fragility of this environment, looking for ways to help people notice the beauty of the coastal landscape and begin to connect more deeply with it. My focus is the apparent tension between the needs of humans and the natural processes that shape the coastline.
Walking sections of the SW Coast Path is my starting point, offering me a way to experience the place in different seasons and weathers, observe changes, record details and note the passage of time. It is part of a mapping process. I find the geology and the associated coastal processes fascinating - these cliffs have become my colour palette. Local sandstones, chalk, Lias and Greensand (both types of clay) range in colour from soft pink, ochre and white to grey-green and dark bluish-grey.
Walking sections of the SW Coast Path is my starting point, offering me a way to experience the place in different seasons and weathers, observe changes, record details and note the passage of time. It is part of a mapping process. I find the geology and the associated coastal processes fascinating - these cliffs have become my colour palette. Local sandstones, chalk, Lias and Greensand (both types of clay) range in colour from soft pink, ochre and white to grey-green and dark bluish-grey.