I create abstract cartographic artworks. Large, unwieldy, and turbulent, they are maps for getting lost and navigating the unknown. ​​

 

My art process starts with an outdoor ink pour to spontaneously generate sprawling, random forms, which are shaped by rain, wind, insects, blowing leaves and grasses, animals and other chance encounters with the environment. Then I map and annotate them with pens, pencils, markers, charcoals, acrylic paint, pastels, gouache, watercolors, collaged roadmap fragments, and natural materials, such as crushed shells and sand.

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The focus of my art practice is the environmental crisis and my anxieties about the future. Grounded by my experiences of loss and change as a woman at midlife, my artworks speak to a planet and a body in transition. They are about engaging with an entanglement of uncertainties in our increasingly chaotic and unpredictable world.

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My background in journalism and my research in the areas of cartography, Earth sciences, and quantum physics inspire how I think and work. Art influences include automatism, abstract expressionism, and calligraphic and cartographic abstraction.​