Influenced by David Attenborough's documentary-A life on our planet; my work directly links to and expresses my concerns about our natural world and the role we play as humans.

I believe it is not a lost cause though and that there is always  hope!! 

The symbiotic relationship of humans and the natural world is symbolized in my work by the contrasts found in a single tree, it is both dying and living in response to human impact.

My art practice due to an extremely busy life has been hard to keep going, this artwork needed to be moveable and able to be worked on in a multitude of places . Choosing a textile work was a perfect solution  and also supported the ideas I wanted to express.

The intricacy of the thread and beads used on the natural fibres of calico in my work, represent the delicate balance I wanted to express . By being presented in the embroidery hoop it gives an unfinished feel to the work and reflects the ongoing conversation between humans and nature. A single green thread on the dying tree symbolizes hope, just as the abandoned axe symbolizes destruction.

I made my art in one long narrow panel to show how covid will be never ending. I limited myself to two mediums, to create a impactful message that we are not alone during these odd times and that we all have similar struggles. I used words to collage sentences and create emphasis. I used irregular placed flowers to show how I made my way through these different times. Sometimes there is a nice flow within the flowers representing that I was doing better in sometimes stages then other. 

Lauran Child makes art out of colourful patterned papers via collage, and I was inspired by her from a young age as she was the illustrator of books I liked. I took her use of colour, size and collage to develop my ideas in the earlier stage of my inquiry process. 

Nancy Spero creates more monochromatic artworks that incorporate blocks of small text and even some drawn figurers. I like the way she uses word within her artworks, the simplicity of some, the repetition of objects and how she includes political statements. She helped me to realise the concepts that I needed to consider like “less is more” - this is how I came to the realisation that the white space within my artwork was necessary to create flow and unity within each section. Her repetition of objects to make a larger impact of her message made me repeat some images and words in my art. 

Lauren Whyte uses collage as her primary medium. White represents her thoughts in her artworks on the meaning of reality within the last two years. Like Nancy Spero she has commented on politics and crated art with negative space by she has used appropriate blocks of colour like Lauran Child. 

Spero and Whyte comment on controversy political stances within their artworks and show cases their options of this during their lives, which I have done in my artwork.