My relationship with nature is deeply emotional and spiritual. The art I make contains a narrative thread that documents a daily dialogue with the living world. It is an expression of my own struggle to communicate the innate beauty, poetry, awe, and wonder I experience when immersed in the natural environment.

As Georgia O’Keeffe put it so beautifully: “When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else..."

The work in this exhibition translates my close observations of the living world into visual images. Whether studying a majestic ancient Yew tree or capturing the unexpected drama of a chance encounter with a stag beetle or toad, I find nature endlessly inspiring. Just as nature adapts over eons to survive, human language changes to meet new challenges in making sense of the world we live in.

By engaging with the natural world, we quickly discover that we are a part of it, not separate from it. As art critic John Berger noted, "Nothing in the nature around us is evil." My work responds to these discoveries—seeking ways to express what I see, feel, hear, and smell, and communicating those sensations to the viewer. We share an unspoken biological language with the earth, a foundational mechanism fundamental to our survival, even if humanity has forgotten how to decode it. What we make, makes us.