A multidisciplinary, self-taught artist in the early stages of their career, based both in Edinburgh and on the tip of the South West Cornish coast. From many years spent studying the Classics, which culminated in a MSt from the University of Oxford, a driving passion for the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome has now flourished out of the academic and into the artistic sphere. The resulting artwork is a response informed and inspired by the classical world, and equally by the legacy it has left across civilisations and generations. The timeless tales that each artwork channels invites the observer to reinterpret their meanings in both a historical and contemporary light, consequently forging new narratives through the eye of the beholder.
Recent artwork has focused on the symbolism of coveted or forbidden fruit in mythology and history, which originated from a fascination with the ancient Greek goddess Persephone and the pomegranate fruit at the core of her mythology. The ceramic pomegranate sculptures have grown layers of meaning on top of the fruit's traditional associations with fertility, marriage, fecundity, abundance and creation, to much darker themes that pervade Persephone's story, such as the rupturing of boundaries both metaphorical and physical. All ceramic pieces are sculpted by hand from a unique Cornish stoneware clay that is mined locally, and worked until an organic, often quite characterful, form emerges from the raw material.