I have always drawn, but my current practice is exclusively drawing based, with recurring references to issues of printmaking. I am particularly interested in the physical contact of the drawing hand with the drawing surface, in the multitude of ways in which the activity and gesture of drawing can result in marks and imprints. I am interested in indicators of human presence—a worn piece of fabric, a footprint in the sand, or a furrow in a field—as well as marks and residues left behind as the result of conscious and unconscious actions or gestures. I explore the idea of drawing as a form of contact between artist and medium, artist and audience and audience and work - interested in the literal and implied connections made between individual pieces of work and how these are orchestrated through exhibition and installation.

My work relates to the individual moving through space and documenting the ensuing residual marks and indicators of contact left behind. Work develops in order to explore questions and thoughts which arise such as the difference between a mark consciously made, for example a pinch or as a result of spontaneous feet dancing and hand holding, a single action such as foot-stamping versus one which involves spinning, twirling or tip-toeing through space, intimate marks which imply the presence of an other and those which do not. Residual traces of man-made marks are recreated and revealed. Ideas are unravelled, examined and re-examined over a long period of time and represented through a variety of media, scale and dimension.

My current body of work, which began in 2002, deals with the marks and residues we leave behind as we move through spaces and investigates drawing as an expression of gesture, mark and imprint or trace. Work ranges from large, meticulously rendered drawings to collections of accidental, intentional and found marks. I am also experimenting with the hand-drawn digital - producing large works using digital pencil on digital paper intended to be  exhibited only at the size they are originally produced.