I used this sketchbook to develop research around the flora and fauna that can be found in our native woodlands and hedgerows, through a series of drawings and digital prints which were manipulated from the original drawings. The sketchbook also became part of my solo show 'Open book | Leabhar Oscailte' at The Working Artist Studios and Galleries in Skibbereen. in Cork. Here began another journey of sorts with my concern for creating art that surrounds rituals of the everyday and the importance of this is evident in this body of work.

The body and the landscape is a continual cohesive language in my practice and I develop this juxtaposition by utilizing different disciplines by examining trajectories of the chaos theory and cosmology through the body, nature, the environment and technology creating transformations with ephemeral and ethereal forms.

I created playful curiosities by speculating concepts and accumulating fragments of history and representation as a way of exploring correlations between ‘play’ and artistic practice to interpret this through a visual language. The majority of my practice has been strongly based in the Aesthetics of the body and the environment. I'm intrigued by the term ‘ecofeminism’ but purely as a critique that draws parallels between the subjugation of humanity and nature. But to also have the need to give humanity credit to being carers of the environment as a necessary role, so that everyone is playing their part as protectors. I support the concept of ‘deep ecology’ as a contemporary ecological philosophy that recognizes an inherent worth of all living beings, regardless of their abilities/(dis)abilities, strengths or weaknesses.