Statement
Most of my sculptures are relief works made from natural materials. I collect these materials from beaches near my home and they include shells, rocks, driftwood, bark, kelp, and barnacles. I choose former living materials specifically that have been tossed by the ocean and dried naturally on the beach. Although they were living and are now dead and still, I give them a new life in whimsical works of art: a curved piece of driftwood becomes the base for an ‘undersea garden’, kelp buds and holdfasts become miniature ‘trees’, and kelp fronds of various sizes become a ‘family’. Despite being ‘stilled’ by nature and glued ‘still’ in their frames, the natural materials continue to evoke the colours, shapes, and textures of when they were alive on land and in the sea.
