My work is an exploration into the long tradition of drapery within the history of art from antiquity to the present day. I am interested in what, if anything, this rich historical presence signifies, particularly when considered as a possible signifier for the inexplicable… those moments when we find ourselves lost for words.
In 1909 A.L.Baldry stressed the importance of drapery in the fine arts, maintaining it as second only to flesh-painting. He went on to bemoan the fact that an insufficient amount of attention was given to it in art schools. He considered the study of drapery as based on knowledge of a kind of ‘anatomy of cloth’.
The intention of my work is to make art that lifts us from the everyday.
I am interested in exploring the unknown via the sense of wonder that we can often feel when we allow ourselves to intuitively respond to the world around us.
Artists and thinkers who explore notions of the sublime, perception and parallel worlds inform my practice and my research.