Unspeakable 2003

The underlying theme of all of my work is the abuse of power. In this body of work I have tried to create a sense of something that has just taken place and I leave it to the viewer to decide what that may have been.

Coloured lines in the charcoal drawings add a sort of violence which cuts into the image.

Dictation 2007

– solo exhibition at Westmount Gallery, Jersey

The paintings in this show are the result of eighteen months spent exploring many different methods of applying oil paint and pushing the boundaries of what the medium can do. I’ve tried printing with it; used household paints, oils and acrylics in the same painting and have applied the paint with various sorts of tools. I have chosen to paint on board as it is cheap and ordinary and yet it will be expected to support a fine art painting, a fact which fits well with the ideas behind the work. My paintings are not intended to convey a message, but rather to create a dialogue. I invite the viewer to put his/her own interpretation on the work.

I have devised a written language using my own mark making to describe my opinions and ideas and I believe it is no less meaningful than the distorted accounts I am presented with through news broadcasts and in the Press. In fact, I think it is much more fun. I have written letters to a number of people who may have some influence and each letter is a unique piece of work.

There are nine paintings and fifteen framed mono-prints on show in the gallery, together with a wall of photo-copy evidence of letters and envelopes which were sent through the post.

The Degree Show 2009

- final degree show held at Spectrum, Jersey

Boris Johnson is Deeply Disturbed by the Overwhelming Support of the People of London 2009

- installation of 126 pieces 24 x 18”: pencil, ink & graphite on paper - with performance

Any attempt to control communication by repeated information through mass media will inevitably result in the loss of meaning. Moreover representations of the Real repeatedly added to one another can bring about hyperreal images, not dissimilar to the way in which news reports sometimes take on ‘disaster movie’ proportions as they are choreographed through electronic media and into our lives. They no longer truly resemble the original news story.

I have transcribed, edited and repeated radio news broadcasts in my own hand. The process of repetition has transposed the verbal into the visual, directing my hand-writing into a spectacle which exists independently and quite separate from the story it set out to describe.

“the medium and the real are now in a single nebula whose truth is indecipherable” – Jean Baudrillard

The Wrinkled Faces of Britain’s High Commissioner 2014

- Branchage Festival, Art in Shop Windows project

Installation in four pieces in mixed media & oils

This piece of work is about the British massacre and torture of Mau Mau suspects, including hundreds of Kikuyu tribesmen, that took place in Kenya in the early nineteen-fifties.

MAM 2015

- collaboration with Ann Morgan at Berni Gallery, Jersey Arts Centre

In this joint exhibition with artist Ann Morgan I have described my experience of being creative, intelligent and independent in a world controlled and dominated by the interests of men.

My contribution to this body of work is in five large paintings and seven small ones which interrogate the very real struggles I’ve encountered in living my life as a woman.

Ann Morgan and I have amalgamated our different talents, culture and wit to question the values that lead to the biggest investment for museums and galleries still being in the work of the male artist … even after fifty years of significant progress in recognition of women’s art.