Trapped, 2025

What happens to all the creatures whose worlds are measured in wire and walls, when outside the air fills with smoke, the waters rise, or the sky shatters with gunfire? Do we think of their small voices, their beating hearts, their hope or terror, as calamity unfolds? This question haunts the work.

Nature Gives and Nature Takes, 2025

Nature gives us trees and forests. Sometimes she takes it all away with fire or floods –leaving us with a bleak black landscape. But hope always returns with the first shoots. When mankind enters with blades and bulldozers, in a quest to control, the violence against trees leaves dark despair.

Morning Tea Ritual, 2024

Home is a place where rituals and objects hold our stories. Nothing tells the story of home and shared moments like our morning tea ritual. For me, a special teapot, a treasured cup, or a handmade vase with flowers, are all part of setting the scene. Our morning tea ritual carry memories of giving and recieving and of special people and moments. The humble tea ritual gives us certainty, comfort, pleasure, and a deep sense of connection and belonging.

Alone With The Full Moon

I wonder if birds also feel lonely sometimes.

The Colour of War, 2023

The flow of media images gives us a voyeuristic glance at the colour of war.  We witness the anger, violence, and bloodshed – as lives, homes, cities, infrastructure, and nature, are destroyed by relentless shelling on civilians. Imagine the trauma and despair when things are blown apart and the lights turned off. While we see and hear, the real human trauma remains unseen. 

Home – Where Lives Intersect

Home is the domestic playground where lives intersect in a familial dance of intimacy and separation.  It is where past and present come together to create a future and where we establish emotional and social roots that last a lifetime. Home is where ancestral voices, parents, children, siblings, family, friends, associates, and the online collective, connect and come together. And as we crisscross these connections and encounters in parallel but different journeys, we negotiate powerful influences that shape our thoughts, beliefs, and actions. We form and reform our self-identities as we learn to deal with, adapt, and accept contradictions and differences on ideas, life, and vision – at home.

Remains of a Garden

In a landscape riddled with bullet holes, there once was a garden that blossomed in Spring. 

The Colour of War

The flow of media images gives us a voyeuristic look at the colour of war.  We witness the anger, violence, and bloodshed – as lives, homes, cities, infrastructure, and nature, are destroyed by relentless shelling on civilians. Imagine the trauma and despair when things are blown apart and the lights turned off.

Blue Tribute

The zinnia is one tough bloom – an exuberant showstopper, with no subtlety in the utter clarity of her colours. A sun lover and survivor, she withstands blistering heat, bugs, drought, and a hard chop down. She blooms for a long time and dazzles again and again with a scentless colour burst.  The birds and bees love her, but as a self-scattering flower, she needs no help with sewing her seeds.  A symbol of endurance and lasting affection, the zinnia reminds me of a strong and resilient woman who grew zinnias in the sun-scorched African soil. 

Let’s Feed the Birds

We feed the birds because it makes them happy, and it makes us happy.

For You, You, and You

For you, you, and you – to remember the time we were in full bloom, when bouquets and flowers were tossed at us. 

House Home Place

My solo exhibition at Morrinsville Art Gallery, 1 October – 6 November 2022

Exposed

Will home ever be the same again? Since the office moved in, home has become more than a private shelter. Home is now a makeshift workspace, a school, a playground, social hub, media centre, and everything in between. Even the bedroom has become a zoom-ready space to shine online. The blurring lines between work and personal life put our most intimate spaces and safety blankets on display. Will this new concept of home rewire our understanding of privacy and exposure?

If They Can Do It…

I admire Mountain Goats for their courage and sure-footed climbing ability as they climb rough, slippery terrain and scale steep cliffs to reach the summit of high mountains.

Family Making Things – Passing on Tradition

Our first Family Making Things exhibition, Arts Post Galleries, Hamilton, New Zealand