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

 

I use photographic and physical media to record and produce abstractions from my visual field and still life. 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 is informed by cognitive science such as Bayesian brain theory and hierarchical predictive processing. I'm also interested in how cognitive psychology and neuroaesthetics can be used to expand our understanding of perception and creativity in the autistic brain.

I'm strongly influenced by mid-20th century abstract art from the New York and San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism and Bay Area figurative art. I'm inspired by the oeuvres of Robert Motherwell, Giorgio Morandi, Franz Kline and Lee Krasner.

I live in rural Northern NSW where I share a small home studio with my neurodivergent husband, Daniel, and our rescue dog, Nina.