Using a mixture of collagraphy printmaking technique , folding and cutting , these books have no story but are a celebration of forms. I call them pure geometry.
Pure Geometry 
Collagraph print folded and cut
Sculptural books
Imperfect Trees
Imperfect Trees 1 – Screenprint 
Imprefect Trees 2 – screenprint
Bodies
Hair – Digital photograph
Spine – Digital photograph
Folds – Digital photograph
Meeting – Digital photograph
Skin – Digital photograph
While we are fed images of the ‘perfect body’ on a daily basis I think it is right to emphasise that in the end we are all just skin, bone, hair and fat. These photos were made to explore the human body as it is, in a very matter of fact way without reference to ugliness or beauty. This was my starting point for Premaruupa and a celebration of all things ‘imperfect’. See projects.
Memento Project 3
Based on one of my own mementos , a plastic pregnancy sick which was the first confirmation that my daughter existed, and I felt a beautiful form in itself. I wanted to remake this stick into something that looked precious, and so reflected my feelings about it.
It was remade into this jewellery- like object, using 3D printmaking, and from a form made on computer aided design, It is gold plated and contains two pearls from my mother’s broken pearl necklace, which had been in turn left to my daughter. This seemed to unite the three generations in the piece. I chose the black and red box as it felt very womb like, and so seemed to fit the project.
Reading between the Lines (Heart)
Paper 4 – Digital Photo 2015
Reading between the lines – ceramic and digital photograph 2016
Reading between the lines – Digital photo 2016
Locked in – Digital photo 2015
A mixture of slip cast ceramic anatomical hearts with crumpled letters. I liked these forms and combined them in this piece entitled ‘Reading between the Lines’. They tell a story. I like the fact that it may be a different story for every individual and not one of them is right or wrong.
Things left behind
Pink – Digital Photo 2017
Sofa – Digital Photo 2017
Blue – Digital photo 2017
Boom boom – Digital photo 2017
Premaruupa – The Imperfect Goddess (Participatory Project)
Offerings 2 drawing 2016
Heart – visitor offering
Spiral throne visitor offering
Prostration -visitor offering
Prayer – visitor offering
Donald Trump – visitor offering
Geeky
Scream – visitor offering
Offerings drawings 2016
Offerings3 drawings 2016
Half head – visitor offering
Sadness – visitor offering
Torso – visitor offering
Monster
Fist impression – visitor offering
Snake/plait – visitor offering
Meditation – visitor offering
Human – visitor offering
Snake/plait
Human- visitor offering
Hilary – visitor offering
Iguana not lizard – visitor offering
Lizard not iguana – visitor offering
Hilary – line drawing
Kali – visitor offering
Cracked pot – visitor offering
Geeky boy – visitor offering
Sadness
Geeky boy 2 – visitor offering
Thin man – Artist offering
Donald – line drawing
Big bottomed girl – visitor offering
Little bird – visitor offering
Exhibition detail – offerings
Looking at ideas of physical perfection and the ideal of Greek beauty, I wanted to look at what would happen if we revered the imperfect or unusual, rather than beauty and perfection. Premaruupa is an imaginary deity who symbolises imperfection, bodily and otherwise. Her name is a combination of two Sanskrit words Prema – unconditional love and ruupa meaning appearance. This is her Creation story.
In the beginning we were all in parts and only saw ourselves in parts. We struggled our way out of the clay to make sense of ourselves, as a whole or a form.
Premaruupa started like this too, but she came out of the clay in the wrong order. Parts got lost and got added and ended up in the ‘wrong’ place, or in the ‘wrong’ shape. It was in her nature, and in time those other people who had also struggled out of the clay started to realise this.
Still they struggled to be whole, inside and out, until they decided it was unavoidable to be parts. They started to accept their parts, that came out in the wrong order, the wrong shape, that were added and taken away, or were missing. As they loved Premaruupa for the strange thing that she was, and saw her beauty and their own, in incompleteness, far too muchness and imperfection.
In my Masters show I invited visitors to participate in the reverence and acceptance of the imperfect by giving her offerings. Religion is often seen in terms of war and oppression, and it is forgotten that there may be another side to it in terms of healing. Visitors offerings are shown in this gallery, click on any picture to start Gallery.
Their only record remains in photos and drawings as the clay was taken back to it’s source. That is, it was taken back to wet clay. This is the tradition in many cultures with offerings. The offerings are made useless or destroyed completely, and it is only in doing this that they pass from the human realm, to the realm of Gods and Goddesses.
Thanks to anyone who took part.
Restoration – Memento 2
Exile – Imperfect Trees
A collaboration between myself and poet/ writer./ artist Maureen Sangster . A country lane near my home was the stomping ground of generations of young people and children all who left their marks on the trees. These form a timeline from 1948 onwards. The visuals were taken and edited by myself and the poem produced in response to the place and my images by Maureen. This film was shown in Cupar Arts Festival 2010 in The Silo and on Cupar Bandstand, as well as Stanza Poetry Festival, St Andrews 2011.
The Cupar Silo 2010
Fierce presence of Helen 1948
Train Hypnotics
6.10 am London
Taken from video clips on trips between Dundee and London, I was wanting to describe a journey in pictures and express the hypnotic quality of travelling by train.
Longlisted for Aesthetica Art Prize and shown in York 2014