Gallery
Personal creative practice & commissions
Boatyard Traces
This collection explores the tension between decay and beauty, fragility and resilience, and the relationship between human-made structures and the natural world. Developed from photographs taken during an art walk around the boatyard in Leigh-on-Sea, the stained-glass panels draw on fragments of rusted metal, barbed wire, weathered wood and eroded surfaces.
Rather than creating literal interpretations, I have abstracted the forms, textures and marks found within these overlooked details, transforming evidence of age and deterioration into patterns, colour and light. The process allows familiar materials to become something less recognisable—suggesting traces, memories and fragments of place.
Through stained glass, surfaces associated with corrosion and decay are given a new life, allowing light to become part of the work and creating a dialogue between weathering and renewal, permanence and change.
Estuary Mosaic pieces - Belton Hills to Benfleet Creek - 2026
These mosaics are the continuation of a project I’ve been working on for a few years, exploring the coastline with a particular focus on the estuary from an aerial view. Imagine you’re a bird who makes maps!
This latest series is bringing my work closer to my home than previous pieces, looking at the stretch of estuary between Leigh and Benfleet with glimpses of Canvey and the other side of the estuary. Studying maps and zooming right in ‘digitally!’ seeing where the mud flats are, finding the salt marsh and discovering names like Tewkes Creek and Cooling Marsh wondering if I can visit them.
This series is an interpretation of how these locations appear from above whilst trying to capture the beauty of the silky mudflats and water that always soothes my soul to look at. My favourite time to see the water is when it has the deep muddy green as the sun reflects the mud & sand-banks below. A thrill run through my bones as I reflect with gratitude that I am able to swim in it & fully connect.
My current focus on the coastlines around the south east, and how environmental factors are impacting our landscape. The starting point was a walk at Pin Mill Lock in Suffolk in 2023. Far out on the marshes I was shocked to see among all that natural landscape whole inlets of water covered in a film of oil, which whilst being beautiful visually, also frightens me about what else is leeching into our lands, and who is responsible for this. These mosaic responses are from an aerial perspective. I look at maps of the coastline and zoom in on particular areas to represent the landscape and how the geographical gives an idea of how the water in our environment feeds into the rivers and seas. The relevance of mosaics and how they are manufactured reflects the chemical and geological nature of the materials.
Birds
Mirrors
Below is a selection of my students work...
