My art practice explores our shared yearning for meaning and connection in an increasingly fragmented, and uncertain world. Through painting, drawing, and installation, I investigate landscape as a means to navigate the unknown, déjà vu, and the passage of our times. Painting restructures what is seen and remembered. I mine the material of my life—things lost, stolen, and found—looking for connections and disconnects, intersections of personal and collective memory. These fragments form the threads that I follow in my work.

Painting restructures memory

I often work outdoors in places with a past—remote, sometimes abandoned. These landscapes offer solitude and space for improvisation. In the studio, found objects, images, and video serve as aide-mémoires. Through painting, drawing, and imagination, I extract stories from materials, mark-making, and gesture. The narratives and imagery which appear, are influenced by film, literature and myth. Histories of displacement, ghost stories and the experience of being an identical twin inform my work. Through this process, I am looking for overlaps and reciprocities of story and form.

Originally from Ohio, USA, I have lived elsewhere for more than half my life. Concepts of place, identity, and home continue to shift, shaping my work. I explore the power of nostalgia—its beauty, and its potential dangers.

I am a member of:
Scottish Artist’s Union Scottish Society of Artists Visual Arts Scotland Scottish Contemporary Art Network, Studio 1.1, London