My work is inspired by nature, specifically flowers and plants, a subject both resilient and profoundly fragile. Making art is my way of praying for its future, of loving it, of thanking it, of being connected. Painting and drawing are at the center of my practice, although I have used video, textiles and sound in installations.

Visually my work is informed by my observation and research of the plants I depict, but I seek to go beyond the purely representational through conceptual context for the work. Recently I’ve become more stylized and expressive in my depictions, a stylistic shift informed by research I have been doing at RBGE, The Royal College of Physicians, Kew Gardens Library and Archive and The Linnean Society into the history of plants in healing and plant illustrations in 15th, 16th and 17th century herbals.

This research is informing ‘Plants, Medicine and Magic’, a series of paintings inspired by old herbalist recipes using plants and flowers to create remedies for physical, emotional and spiritual ailments.

I studied Art and Art History at Goldsmiths College, London 1989-92. I am based in rural Fife at my unusual studio on Platform 2, Ladybank Railway Station. Ladybank Railway Station is a functioning station on the line from Edinburgh to Dundee. Built c.1850, my studio used to be the old station restaurant rooms looking straight onto the platform, I renovated these rooms to create the studio in 2009.