My work centres around two long-standing interests: the recovery of something poetic from everyday objects and materials and a fascination with the processes of human engagement with these objects and materials particularly in relation to the human need to handmake, write and draw, something that seems more relevant than ever. I select and collect found materials and papers as well as foraged colour and texture, often working with specific places or particular landscapes. I am drawn to abandoned places and objects in order to seek out the memories of their former human interactions. Within my work I use the language of construction such as templates and patterns, tacking and pinning in order to explore ideas of time and the presence of the maker. I make and take apart, construct, destroy and build back in an effort to speak of human interactions with processes and materials, revealing and concealing the layers of contact. I use layers of chalk pigment and beeswax to seal and sometimes conceal the work. The pieces are suggestive of an ongoing process, a lost train of thought or possibly a state of decay, they reveal and sometimes conceal elements recorded on the paper. In my Inheritance series the materials are fairly meaningless paper documents, the paper ephemera we collect throughout our lives, rental agreements, ledgers and disused house deeds. In the pieces I invite the viewer to peer between the lines of text for glimpses of something human amidst the formalities of administration.