I find myself exploring relationships, embodiment and containment, important aspects of the personal.

Often pieces are deliberately created to portray a veiling or a disguising.  Many layers are added.  Just as our personalities are multi-dimensional, and just as we need to peel away layers to discover the true essence of someone or something, these pieces reflect complexity.

However, while peeling away layers can be a wonderful process of discovery, in reality these layers also serve as protection, in an attempt to be allusive or to hide.  They cannot be peeled away very easily.

I tend to work in series that I return to: Sacred Space (miracles in God’s world), Cocoons (space and safety); Thorns and Quills (responses to world events); Vestures (veiling and my interest in women and events of the middle east); Zip (family, embodiment and women’s roles); Nature (and our positive or negative imprint); Tide pools (and their mysteries) and Spirituality (my faith and that of others).

I also explore alternative material and forms.  Some are ancient, some contemporary. Most are found. Some have served to create containers in ways that are totally respectful of nature and our world.  These alternative materials can be strong yet fragile in appearance.  They are ethereal and transparent, a contrast to the veiling and opaqueness of other materials. 

All pieces continue to explore the notions of sacred space, vessel, embodiment and containment.