Meet the artist

My work is grounded in a lifelong relationship with place.
I work on old topographic maps and marine charts, layering them with huts, native birds, bush, animals and marine life — markers of shelter, movement, and presence.

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The mountains and backcountry of Aotearoa New Zealand were my spiritual home, explored from childhood alongside my father, a forest ranger. Those places taught me how to pay attention, how to move carefully, and how to belong to land without trying to dominate it.

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The maps and charts I use are records of careful navigation — of contours, depths, hazards, and limits. They speak to a way of knowing place through patience and respect. The wildlife within the works reflects fragile systems that depend on that same ethic of care.

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Across both land and sea, the work is about guardianship: holding memory, acknowledging vulnerability, and staying in relationship with environments that sustain us. Each piece is made to carry a sense of connection and responsibility into the spaces where people live with it.