My work is an exploration of the British landscape, intricately weaving my life experience, environmental concerns, and research of specific places. Employing Ordnance Survey maps and physically walking the landscape, I trace and record tumuli, field systems, dew ponds, paths, and other evidence of past life. My practice explores these ideas using kiln fired vitreous enamel applied to low carbon steel panels.

I explore notions of space and place using a visual framework of directional lines, the emotive resonance of colour and dynamic mark making. I don’t try to represent the landscape, rather foster a sense of placement within space where geographical features are reduced to simplified abstract masses layered upon more diagrammatic notation.

Using 2mm thick mild steel to facilitate extensive reworking and physical intervention, I hand apply with a myriad of tools wet process enamel to flat panels. When this is dry, I incise, rub, sgraffito and brush back creating gestural marks evoking routes, paths and stopping points along a walk. Opaque and transparent sieved enamels are often then applied, building yet more layers of dialogue.

Kiln firing to temperatures up to 850°C, the fired enamel is abraded, enamelled, and refired multiple times through a process I see as reductive drawing revealing marks not just on the surface but embedded within the piece exposing the hidden narratives of the landscape.