I am a visual artist...
My current creative practice focuses on photography and paper collage.
I work from a light, bright, tranquil studio at my home in rural Kent where I use my time to read, write, visit exhibitions and attend courses in order to develop and widen my own artistic practice and interests.
In past ‘incarnations’ I have worked as an art library administrator, an arts development officer, a freelance exhibition planner / curator and a ceramicist.
I find...
inspiration in the arts in their many and varied forms; from fine art to folk art and from classic novels and contemporary fiction to fairy tales. Song lyrics, lines from poems or film scripts are often ‘prompts’ for my work.
I collect...
appealing items in bric-a-brac shops and both natural and man-made objects from my environment. Many of these objects fire my imagination and feed - directly or indirectly - into my work.
I make...
temporary, three-dimensional ‘curations’ from ‘mud-larked’ objects as well as collages from magazines, books, found papers and ephemera.
My ‘curations’ are an opportunity to work in a random, spontaneous and playful manner to create new and unexpected forms.
Each small ‘assemblage’ is photographed before being dismantled into its component parts for reuse. The resulting images can be printed to order as high quality, limited edition art prints and are available on request.
I use the same ‘cut and paste’ random association method to play with ideas and images for paper collage. The majority of my work is figurative and involves story telling.
I record...
my creative ‘musings’ - as well as travels through time and space - photographically. I am interested in exploring the role of photography and photographic editing in reinterpreting objects and creating alternative narratives.
A selection of images appear in my Instagram - @paperclaygirl.
I write...
from time to time about my own work, that of other artists or subjects that interest me. You can view some of these pieces in the Journal section of this website.