The work is abstract

I play with the metal - forming, cutting, combining - enjoying the surfaces, the lines, the spaces.

But as I play I discover - the combinations reveal things to me - evoke places, times, feelings - the curve of a hill, where the ocean meets the sea, an island, combinations of shapes that make a house or a group of houses, the feeling of standing in a particular room, walking through doorways, churches.

I don’t mean to reference particular things but the influences of the places I am from seep in to everything I am - and do.

I grew up near the ocean, surrounded by hills. I didn’t fish, or spend time in boats, but I love fish - they’re beautiful (I can no longer eat them).

When I made this neckpiece I was playing with the pod shapes, building up groups - the work is abstract.

But then maybe it became a shoal.