I begin my visual practice with walking in the landscape and with my garden: daily with a sense of time trailing. I learn from an intimate exploration, watching, handling, tending. This forms part of my relationship with the environment, how we use and consume it. I construct imagery that builds a narrative of associations: trees, birds, flowers, people, stones, rock face. Gestural marks collide with collected photographic fragments, the body colliding with nature. I like working collaboratively, to be challenged by the presence of another’s idea, opening new vistas of perception. This has led to working with installation, performance, paint and photography mixed in different combinations.