For me making art is joy, an opening into timeless essence, a voyage of discovery. Inspired by mindfulness meditation, Buddhist psychology and life experience, I use mixed media painting, performative drawing, photography, video and hand-made book-making to explore ever-changing sensations, energy, feelings, thoughts and memories as they arise and dissolve within innate, unchanging awareness.

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Multiple layers of araldite, wood ash, intensely pigmented paint, pastel, cold wax, collage, found materials and gossamer Japanese handmade paper are overlaid as metaphors for the multi-dimensional texture of embodied experience. I use colour, light and shade for their powerful emotional, physical and spiritual resonance.