Within the sea’s waters I find a fluid realm that is simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar; a multi-dimensional space encompassing the different perspectives of within, surface, under, beneath.

The sea keeps within it the past, present, and future; a wide lens through time that carries the weight of grief, pain and joy.

Sea swimming is a phenomenology: “We know not through our intellect but through experience” (Merleau-Ponty). In the water my body becomes enveloped and supported by the water leaving behind painterly poetic marks that echo the fearless abandon of abstract painting.

These works use film, spoken word, object and sound to immerse the viewer in a slightly disorienting yet captivating space, where energies between works provoke interactions and revelations; where the philosophies of Juhani Pallasmaa’s ‘thinking hand’ meets Roni Horn’s eclectic paraphernalia: plastic, poetry and imagery arranges itself to find a new voice beyond language: disruptive and abrasive yet finding its own level.

Light, pattern, and scale collide whilst the tideline hums with chatter. Sensations, weather conditions, and ambient noises, the intangible and unpredictable infuse energy into my work, as detritus, waves, and I are eventually washed back onto the shore.

My words start with chatter at the tideline of rope and thread, fray and pull then weave thoughts of entanglement and rhythm, echoing across the surface towards the endless horizon.