My work explores humanity and its relationship with the earth. I seek, through surrealism, to convey how complex and layered is the natural world. As human beings we tend to categorize, seeking to simplify the world in order to make it more comprehensible. This tendency to linear thinking often leads us to intervene in natural processes, without fully understanding the wider ramifications of our actions. It is only after we see the unintended consequences of deforestation, land misuse, pollution, etc. that we come to understand the true complexity of nature. In order to represent this complexity in my work, I try to evoke the effect of objects emerging and receding through the canvas. I merge my female figure with elements of nature, to show we are connected to, and dependent upon, this planet. As our species continues to destroy the natural world, I want my work to remind us of what we face losing: the future of our children, and the bounty of nature. I ask that people see the beauty and complexity that surrounds us, and which is being destroyed. This is embodied in my work by the painting of the myriad details of nature, in what I consider to be an act of reverence. At the same time, I want to offer hope in the form of the young women who will be our leaders and who will nurture our planet back to health.

I see a painting as a conversation in which the opening sentences are created by the artist. The goal of my efforts is to try and create work that suspends disbelief to the point that it slips effortlessly into communication. Beauty has a role to play in that exchange. Not the superficial appearance that we tend to associate with the word, but the accidental beauty of the turn of a head, a fleeting emotion playing across a face, or the grace of an unaffected gesture. Beauty has the capacity to open our souls and make us sharply aware of everything around us. It can transport us and yet keep us truly in the moment, longing to hold onto that emotional rush we feel. It allows us to create a zone of comfort in which we can discuss ideas and feelings, and how our world will change. It is my hope that it takes others on a journey in which they create their own conversation with my work.