I am an artist who explores the relationship between place, material memory and perception. Investigating how personal experiences become embedded within landscapes. She primarily works in oil paint on recycled wooden boards covered in jesmonite. I uses landscapes familiar to the Northeast of England; places connected to childhood and memory. Rather than documenting these places, I communicates the emotional traces left behind. 

Materials are central to this exploration. The textures surfaces of the jesmonite disrupt and fragment the painted image preventing seamless perception of the landscapes. The fragmented jesmonite visually reflects the nature of memory. The used wooden boards show traces of their material history through stains, marks and scratches, these traces become intertwined with my own experience of place. 

My work is largely influenced by phenomenology and Merleau-Ponty's understandings of embodied perception as a physical experience. Her instillations encourage movement as the viewer navigates the relationship between surface, image and perception. Meaning is created not from a single viewpoint but through the body's interaction with the work. 

My practice asks how places continue to exist beyond their physical location. With layered materials, fragmentation and connection to landscape. I investigate the way memories are continuously reconstructed, revealing a place as something remembered experienced and perceived rather than just seen.