Within all my projects I look for as much user involvement as possible, as I believe the experience has instant rewards (pride, empowerment, a sense of ownership of the space), which is heightened in settings where users can feel powerless and detached from their surroundings.

As my images show, my public artwork is shaped around the possibilities of the surroundings, and it is usually within the limitations of a space that I thrive, finding imaginative ways to transform impersonal environments. In most cases, my work is designed to integrate with the fabric of the building, winding around fittings and fixtures, trailing from walls, onto ceilings, etc.

Within my workshops, my aim is to induce creative thinking through: word games, text, poetry, and simple, sometimes unorthodox, visual methods that produce beautiful artwork along the way.  I work with stencils and spray-paints, paints, paper/fabric collage, assemblage & photography, laminated structures, mono-prints, fabric paints, scanning, digital imagery and anything that best expresses an idea, and is suitable for the surroundings.  

Devising workshops before the design process is not only a means of gaining the ideas and opinions of those involved, but it also enables me to see how the space is used, where people may be waiting for sometime, or areas where colour and imagery can create way finder trails, etc.

I love the idea of catching the eye, through incorporating a transition of colours and repetitive imagery, creating journeys that didn't exist before, and using art to produce an identity and feeling within spaces that sometimes appear completely detached from their inhabitants.