I am an artist working across printmaking, photography, and hand-made book forms. My practice focuses on The Shelter-an ongoing project exploring how complex images become clear over time, through attention and looking.
My work is rooted in observing natural structures such as branches, roots, and organic systems. Within their apparent chaos, I look for relationships, connections, and moments where order begins to emerge.
I build layered images that can feel dense and difficult to read at first, but gradually reveal pathways and internal logic. Recently, my practice has moved beyond traditional printmaking, combining analogue photography, alternative processes like Van Dyke printing, and physical actions such as tearing, stitching, and hand-binding.
A red thread appears in my work as both a material and a symbol, marking presence, movement, and a personal way of navigating complexity.
My work invites the viewer to slow down and spend time with the image.
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The Shelter - a hand-bound artist book about finding your way through what first feels like chaos. A red line moves, hesitates, returns. Slowly, something begins to settle. Not by control, but by staying, looking, and letting it unfold.
The main artwork of the final project — The Shelter — is printed on four fabric panels to create transparency, with hand-stitched Van Dyke prints marking moments of absence and fields of light.
Red Line - created at Printfest 2026 through the hands of around 90 people, each adding their own gesture. A collective drawing of presence, where individual lines intertwine, building a shared structure that holds traces of movement, connection, and time.
A series of Van Dyke prints using a historical process to explore a growing relationship with dense natural forms. Through tone, texture, and light, the images move between presence and absence, revealing subtle connections within layered, complex environments.
Rooting - an etching exploring the moment of connection, where branches and roots mirror each other. A search for balance between what grows above and below, where structure emerges slowly from within the complexity of natural forms.
