Folio of works

Making Ground, 2026

Meeting 1

Hand made oil paints with locally sourced pigments on canvas. 33cm x 33cm.
Meeting 2

Hand made oil paints with locally sourced pigments on canvas. 33cm x 33cm.
Listening 1

Hand made oil paints with locally sourced pigments on canvas. 33cm x 33cm.
Listening 2

Hand made oil paints with locally sourced pigments on canvas. 33cm x 33cm.
Softening 1

Hand made oil paints with locally sourced pigments on canvas. 33cm x 33cm.
Softening 2

Hand made oil paints with locally sourced pigments on canvas. 33cm x 33cm.
Tracing

Hand made oil paints with locally sourced pigments on canvas. 33cm x 33cm.

Making Ground

These paintings are an ongoing conversation with the place where I live.

Made from handmade paints created with pigments gathered from the surrounding land, the work begins with a practice of listening - to soil, stone, mineral, plant, season and the quiet shifts of place.

Through gathering, grinding, mixing and working with earth-derived materials to produce oil paints, I come to know this landscape through touch. The grit of pigment between my fingers, brush meeting canvas, noticing the weight and texture of these materials, their nuanced differences and subtle variations of colour become ways of sensing and attuning — of coming to know, slowly and gently, this place, and in turn becoming known by this land too.

This work is not an attempt to portray the landscape, but to feel its cycles, its subtleties and nuances - to deepen in my relationship with it, to find a felt sense of belonging through attention. In slowing down, softening and listening, I discover the ways a place shapes us, and the ways we might learn to meet it in return.

Streams Meeting Streams, 2021 - 2022

1. Earth Below, Space to Breathe, 2022, SOLD

Watercolour and gouache on 250gsm Steinbach watercolour paper
2. Precipice, 2021-2022, SOLD

Watercolour and gouache on 250gsm Steinbach watercolour paper
3. Receive (Sunlight Streaming), 2022, $725

Watercolour and gouache on 250gsm Steinbach watercolour paper
4. Shimmer, 2022, $675

Watercolour and gouache on 250gsm Steinbach watercolour paper
5. Arrive (Gently), 2022, $625

Watercolour and gouache on 250gsm Steinbach watercolour paper
6. Enfold, 2022, $640

Watercolour and gouache on 250gsm Steinbach watercolour paper
7. Stream (Gathering in Rock Pools), 2021-2022, $580

Watercolour and gouache on 250gsm Steinbach watercolour paper
8. Across the Valley, 2022, $220

Watercolour and gouache on 250gsm Steinbach watercolour paper
9. Expanse, 2022, SOLD

Watercolour and gouache on 250gsm Steinbach watercolour paper
10. Following the Breeze Along the Stream, 2022, $170

Watercolour and gouache on 250gsm Steinbach watercolour paper

Streams Meeting Streams

This series of works was birthed by longing. When the sound of water trickling over river rocks, the scent of wild air, the textures of cliff faces and the audible force of thousands of leaves rustling together was inaccessible, I searched within.

Sensations within the body became my way of accessing the vast landscapes I yearned to be held within. Restrictions on movement over these last years had me paying closer attention to what it really is to live in this body. Feeling in closely to muscles, organs and skin tingling with life, the presence of my own body warmth, the heart swelling, pressure building and releasing, becoming more present to being in my body came to be somewhat akin to being within these longed for vast landscapes.

Tracking these experiences on the page in colour by building up layers and layers of tone and texture, I came to find myself gazing upon surfaces which also appeared to hint at wild and varied landscapes as if peering at inner mountain scapes, river flows, cliff faces, sunlit rocks, waterfalls, rock pools, tall tree canopies overhead and valleys.

Working these stained-glass like images on the page often began with a feeling or gesture guiding me from the outset, yet seeing them through to completion was a process of discovery, of working with the unknown, of listening, of sensing. One block of colour met the next much like exploring a landscape by foot one pace at a time, using intuition rather than a map to traverse the space.

Slowly, through a meditative creative process, I worked subtle layers of paint over and over until each painting, along with my own being felt to vibrate with a nourished sense of life.

A collection of baskets woven 2011 - 2023

1. Large coil market basket

Phormium Tenax - New Zealand Flax, Cordyline sp.
37 x 34 x 22 cm
2. Large coil market basket

Phormium Tenax - New Zealand Flax, Cordyline sp.
37 x 34 x 22 cm
3. Coil basket

Typha sp. - Combungi / Bulrush
30 x 31 x 16 cm
4. Coil basket

Typha sp. - Combungi / Bulrush
30 x 31 x 16 cm
5. Ivy twined basket

Hedera helix - Common ivy
26 x 20 x 10 cm
6. Melon basket

Hedera helix - Common ivy
34 x 26 x 29 cm
7. Twined lantern

Hedera helix - Common ivy, candle
11 x 11.5 x 12 cm
8. Small coil basket

Phormium Tenax - New Zealand Flax, Cordyline sp.
9 x 9 x 6 cm
9. Coil basket

Lomandra sp.
20 x 17 x 7.5 cm
10. Large coil basket

Doryanthes sp, Cordyline sp, upcycled leather
33cm x 32 x 23.5 cm
11. Large coil basket

Doryanthes sp, Cordyline sp, upcycled leather
33cm x 32 x 23.5 cm
12. Red hot poker sunhat and basket

Kniphofia sp. - Red Hot Poker
Sunhat: 34 x 34 x 10 cm
Basket: 18.5 x 15 x 5 cm
13. Coil basket

Kniphofia sp. - Red Hot Poker
18.5 x 15 x 5 cm
14. Four small baskets

Four baskets made of various fibres including Phormium Tenax - New Zealand Flax, Cordyline sp, Lomandra sp.  Kniphofia sp. - Red Hot Poker
15. Three twined baskets

Hedera helix - Common ivy
16. Two twined baskets

Hedera helix - Common ivy
17. Two twined baskets

Phormium Tenax - New Zealand Flax
S: 9.5 x 9 x 8 cm, L: 7.5 x 7.5 x 17.5 cm
18. Six twined baskets

Phormium Tenax - New Zealand Flax
Various sizes
19. Two twined baskets

Phormium Tenax - New Zealand Flax
S: 6.5 x 7 x 8.5 cm, L: 7.5 x 7.5 x 17.5 cm
20. Twined basket, coil basket and flowers

Phormium Tenax - New Zealand Flax, Typha sp. - Combungi / Bulrush, flowers
L: 30 x 31 x 16 cm, S: 8 x 5 x 18 cm
21. Twined basket and coil basket

Phormium Tenax - New Zealand Flax, Typha sp. - Combungi / Bulrush
Twined: 26 x 7 x 41.5 cm
22. Twined basket

Phormium Tenax - New Zealand Flax
14.5 x 10.5 x 11.5 cm
23. Coil backpack

Phormium Tenax - New Zealand Flax, upcycled leather, hand carved avocado pip button
36 x 15 x 39 cm
24. Random weave basket

Palm inflorescence
35 x 33 x 23 cm