My end goal is to expand my practice to be part of collaborative projects which giving me a the opportunity to go deeper into my longstanding fascination with the presence of absence; generating self-reflection  and  interrogation of space and memory through a variety of processes  - photography, drawing, dreaming, sound, printmaking,  now adding paper sculpture as part of my painting process. 

My exhibition Ghost Windows enabled me to have a taste of how my work has a visceral and emotional quality which connects to the audience, something I wish to investigate further.

So far I have flipped between mediums whilst beginning to find a language of mark making. I’m exploring the marks in the misty veils and dark rainy daubs of the paintings through paper.

I’ve begun to translate the frantic marks of my paint pens in paper by creating sculptural forms fast. These have been both cylindrical which I want to hang to see how they behave in changing light and air movement. Something I want to develop further is working with sound which I can interpret in paper marks as I have done in paint previously. I also resuming research into philosophy around folding, holes, memory and other things I come across.

Practical skills learned from making include long arm stapling, tearing, often ambidextrously. 

What started this material engagement was my obsession with demolition of the grain mill buildings in Hull and realising that working in these ways in paper gives me the chance to explore notions of absence and presence – in a way to enrich my practice.