About

I work with natural elements to record places and periods of time, mainly using plants and their naturally occurring dyes.  After a rural upbringing I moved to London in 2000 and have lived and worked here since. I graduated with a degree in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College in 2003 and completed an MA in Education  (Artist Teacher Practice) at Oxford Brookes University with distinction in 2022.

My current practice explores the change and growth of plants in my garden and other places which have significance to me. I work with time-based processes and alternative printmaking techniques to record periods in time or the status of plants at a particular moment. I am interested in the unpredictability of these processes and the effects that they have both on the plants used to create them and the environment they are created in. I am currently investigating how nature can be used to record periods of time by creating work in the environment, documenting the effects of natural elements such as rain.

I have work in private and public collections internationally and have exhibited nationally including Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (2017-2020), Townhouse Open, OVADA and have had solo exhibitions at New:Defence arts project in Essex and Woolwich Front Room. My work was commissioned for the cover of the most recent South London Commons project publication about Woolwich Common.

Education

BA (Hons) Fine Art – Goldsmiths, University of London

MA Cultural & Critical Studies – Birkbeck, University of London

PGCE (Post Compulsory Education & Training) – University of Greenwich

MA Education (Artist Teacher Practice) – Oxford Brookes University

Portrait by Beata Stencel