“I recreate and draw on the ongoing processes and forces that transform our environment, both natural and human-made, over time. I integrate this practice, myself, and my personal psychology with that environment and resulting work. It is performative and psycho-navigational: a way of finding my location and direction; my means of survival.

Continuing my search for somewhere to be, I came upon strange and beautiful mountains and coastlines in Coigach and Assynt, North-West Scotland. They have been drawing me back for a number of years and are central to my current work, for which I immerse myself in these timeless places where nature's processes are more apparent.

The work is hand drawn into grounded copper etching plates entirely on location over days; projects sometimes span years, of exploring and revisiting. I work with intense, obsessional focus and detail: while observing surface features such as rocks, vegetation and water, physically I am affected by the changing weather conditions; this experience of location is filtered and distilled into drawn marks on the plate. These marks reflect my experiences of the land on both a microscopic and macroscopic level, and my observations of the relationship between the two in the erosive processes at work on earth. When I hold a drawing needle in my hand and connect with the surface of the etching plate, I find my location.“