Her work is inspired by her love of old children’s book illustration (from the early to mid 20th century), in particular the picture puffin books, and the work of artists and designers also from that era including Edward Bawden, Eric Ravilous and Barbara Jones amongst others. She has always been very interested in detail and intricacy and this is carried through into her own image making. Another big source of inspiration is folk art which she initially became aware of when she visited the Museum of American Folk Art in New York when she was a student. She found the colour, energy and playfulness of what I saw there really exciting and it definitely influenced how she approach making both images and her three dimensional work. She believes very strongly in hand-made, and suppose that her work could be described as quite traditional in the sense that she would never consider using a computer to make an image. She uses pen and ink or watercolour.
VIDEO by Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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