Everything has a narrative if you look closely enough. Every mark on the a stone wall, every boot print, or spilled drink, tells a tale, and I will always be drawn to them. 
Floodlines grew out of my interest in stories and structuring sequential narratives. During the MA course, I have explored a plethora of different techniques, styles, and narrative schema, across a number of projects. My research has been distilled to form a story; figures moving in the mists of my mind, that wanted to reach out onto the page. They had stories to tell and worlds to be inhabited.


In Floodlines we follow detective Ellie Swales as she uncovers two interwoven cases. One from 1995, the other from 50 years prior. All the time battling her own demons against the backdrop of the floodplains of Somerset.

Through this narrative, I revisit my own childhood memories of growing up on the Avon: Drawing, writing the character of the landscape and the people that inhabit it. Taking marks and foliage from the land, photography, mark making and printmaking, then distilling it all down into this: Act 1, Volume One.

I will continue to follow Ellie into intrigue and healing, and I hope you will follow her too.