Welcome to my first newsletter and thank you for taking an interest in my work.
These are early days for the new website, and the first time I have properly announced my new work to the world.
A few of the works on this site were shown once before at 'Maybe a Vole' gallery in North London in 2014; many thanks to all who visited. It was great to finally get work out there and hear people's reactions to my world of plastic fragments.
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I have brought together a selection of my work with found plastics. As you scan through the various galleries you may even recognise a location or two where I have been gathering and building things; I sometimes include maps and photos of find locations as they often influence what I have created. I always include find locations and dates in object descriptions.
I have spent a lot of time in the countryside, on various coastlines and in cities, combining walking, camping and foraging. Most material comes from the streets of London and the seashore, mainly the south west of England and the east coast of Italy in recent years.
It all started with a fascination in the fragments of brightly polished coloured plastics lying in the sand on a beach on the South Devon coast, and grew exponentially along the East Kent coast a few years later, where the range of material greatly expanded to reveal the magic of the unpredictable. Practise has evolved into several different approaches, each with rules of engagement, though the underlying constant is always the excitement of finding strange things unexpectedly.