Steppe Change

My work is about shared spaces. I grew up in rural England and was aware of sharing the land with other species of flora and fauna. Having freedom to roam I had encounters with birds, farm animals, dogs, cats, rats, insects and parasites, as we crossed each other's spaces. As a young adult, after a decade living in cities, I returned to rural living and saw anew the spaces and the things I had taken for granted as a child. I am inquisitive about this relationship between the domestic, the tame and the wild. This relationship exemplifies the biggest question of our time; how we share with other humans and other flora and fauna the resources of our planet. By placing the non-human in an unexpected position within a composition my intention is to flip the old adage ‘out of sight, out of mind’. I use colour and brush work to create a sense of the uncanny or strange.

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