I create in order to communicate and describe. To describe not buildings or landscapes but to create sensitivity and empathy. There is a vulnerability in humanity that touches my heart and it is this that concerns the current work.
I have a passion for working with paper and cloth; making stitches with thread on paper and drawing on cloth. The texture of both inspires me even as I am working. The reasons for working and creating change constantly although I seem to retain a need to engage in narrative. The narrative evolves from what I see around me, which I constantly record with drawings. In order to record I work fast, a face described in seconds. The curve of a nose, the pattern of frown lines, the way ageing hair can flutter helplessly all this charms and fascinates me. I prefer to use the pencil to the camera because it engages my body in movement. It is the movement of my wrist that follows the line of a figure. The pencil is an extension of my eye and head and wrist and arm and hand and they move together. It is as if my whole being is spontaneously involved in a drawing.