Artist Statement

My practice explores the intersection of digital and analogue processes, botanical materiality, and the documentation of ephemeral natural forms. Working across disciplines - photography, printmaking, drawing, sculpture, and writing - I investigate themes of impermanence, shadow, light, duality, and the relationship between making and recording. Central to this is capturing: capturing light and moment in photography, graphite within wax in encaustic, words on a page in writing. Yet what I ultimately seek to capture is transcendence itself - the experience of making where words fail, where the maker disappears. This is why I make art.

Being an identical twin is central to my identity and practice, shaping how I understand duality, mirroring, and what I call shared vision with my twin sister. This relationship questions the notion of the artist as solitary individual, opening dialogue about artistic identity as collaborative and relational rather than isolated. Living and working in the Scottish Highlands, I grow flowers for artistic research and preservation, engaging with plant lifecycles from cultivation through decay. The flowers I cultivate become both subjects and objects, moving between garden, scanner bed, and photographic documentation. Writing - through slow, contemplative practice and voice notes - captures thoughts that would otherwise be lost.

My work gives voice to voiceless things. Sitting between photography, printmaking, drawing, botanical study, and reflective writing, it investigates time, light, shadow, and transformation. My practice creates supportive environments for transformation: in digital communities like the Women's Land Army (3,000+ members worldwide), in photographic archives that honor botanical materials with dignity, and in the garden itself. The work asks: how do we create spaces where transformation can happen with support, care, and attention?