Whilst I make from and within, whatever environment I find myself in, it is not my intention to impose myself upon the landscape, but to reapply what already exists there, to reconstruct what has been discarded by nature or man.

To present the familiar in an unfamiliar way, to draw attention to what is sometimes ignored, in our haste to travel through life. To encourage people to slow down and look at their own everyday world a little more carefully, to nurture and preserve it and to remind the viewer that all is perishable ........ even us.

The backgrounds in some of my works, play an as equal part as the materials I lay upon it.

The materials not only have to relate to each other, but to the space around them. It can be a marking upon the ground, a texture, a connection with the light.

For the image to succeed everything must connect, even myself.

I enjoy working in this way, as it can be done no matter where I am in the world. I have completed these works in urban, suburban and outback Australia, in China and the U.S

I like that my artwork eventually returns to the ground where it has come from and that I am not required to be a consumer to create and experience it. It is my way of treading lightly upon the Earth.

All environmental art in a general sense, is art that helps improve our relationship with the natural world, whether it is referred to as assemblage, an exterior installation, earth art, eco art, nature art, however you label it, it is there as a reminder of the fragility of our environment, that nothing lasts.