My work is about story telling. My inspiration comes from the bizarre and sometimes gruesome tales of the Grimms brothers, Perrault, Heinrich Hoffmann, and Hilaire Belloc.

 

Fairy tales are a symbolic language which, across centuries speak about family and morality, gender and the relationship between the sexes, violence, emancipation and growing up and old.
I am interrested in exploring Fairy Tales through  social change, using early versions of stories and presenting  them in contemporary contest.

 

 My work is very theatrical and  playful  to references childhood. I like to play with the metamorphosis of the ordinary and familiar into a grotesque and absurd alternative. I distort my characters into beautiful and monstrous creatures.

 

 My main visual influences are Louise Bourgeois, Paula Rego, Robert Rauschenberg,  Giacometti, and Annette Messager as well as the motion animation of Jan Svankmajer, the Quay Brother and early Polanski films.

 

I explore my ideas through painting, sculpture and installation.