I am autistic (PDAer) and I live with invisible disability and chronic illness. Although I received a formal fine-art education, I identify as an autodidact (especially in the photographic and plastic arts).

My practice is informed by cognitive science and cognitive psychology. I'm particularly interested in how Bayesian brain theory and neuroaesthetics can be used to expand our understanding of perception and creativity in the autistic brain.

My heightened visuosensory processing and visuospatial sensitivity to the immediate environment activates a meditative state where light, shadow, line, form, negative space and greyscale tonal value become amplified.

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I use photography, drawing, and painting to produce visual-field abstractions and natura morta. I also create Brainscapes through surrealist automatism and a non-linear and atelic approach to mark making triggered by my brain's weak priors and default mode network (DMN).

My work converges on the philosophical and plastic concerns of mid-twentieth-century painting from the New York and San Francisco schools of abstract expressionism and Bay Area figurative art. I find continual meaning and inspiration in the oeuvres of Robert Motherwell, Franz Kline, Richard Diebenkorn, Lee Krasner, Fernando de Szyszlo, Giorgio Morandi and Hector Gilliland. 

I share a home studio with my husband, autistic photographer and painter Daniel Hancox, and our rescue dog, Nina.

I'm based in Australia.