About
Having studied for my BArch(Hons) and DipArch at the Mackintosh School of Architecture in Glasgow, I qualified as an Architect from South Bank University in 2006 and have spent 10 years in architectural practice in London.
My work has been strongly influenced by my architectural training not just aesthetically but in the process I have developed to create each piece.
I have always been a maker and have found that I return again and again to paper. A simple and readily available material, with tantalising potential beyond its basic state as a blank sheet. I feel compelled to manipulate the surface, to ‘construct’, not simply apply an image. Paper is both flexible and stiff. It can hold colour of all hues. It can reflect and absorb light and is produced in a wondrous array of textures, weights and colours. Using simple folding and cutting techniques a flat sheet can be transformed. It lends itself to crisp angular forms, dynamic and precise, and through this medium I have been exploring my other love; geometry. But paper is also an inherently warm and tactile material which I believe gives it a timeless appeal.
I continue to live and work in London, creating speculative artworks and commissions, while raising two children with my husband Simon.