"When I create a painting or print, I want to stimulate and capture the viewer's mind, cause hesitation, so that my artworks have a better chance at being looked at, being seen again.    I like to evoke thoughts and contemplation, awaken the mind with a twist of humour or fate”.  

My mahi (work) articulates serious narratives of provocative art that bring to life New Zealand's past and present. Often, I juxtapose a tableau of vessels, in anthropomorphic guise, to represent both the 'imported' and indigenous found within a typical New Zealand landscape.

Ceramic vessels dominate my work as unique containers bearing colonial culture with links to Aotearoa New Zealand’s history and the impact on the Indigenous and environment today and in the future.

I also explore themes of domesticity using ‘ceramic-like’ objects as metaphors for social comment and thought.

I am always mindful of my ancestors, early colonial settlers who attempted to create a "Little England" on these shores, through their endeavours to settle by taming the land, farming, and some preaching Christianity.

They planted the seeds for our world today and our future.