A TREE NEARBY Collage

Recycling brings new life to an abandoned object and allows an unknown element to exist in my sculpture, encouraging inventiveness and it is important to me that the wood I use is salvaged. Studying plant biology for my degree inspires many of the forms and structures of my sculpture, sometimes consciously, but often quite unconsciously. This detailed understanding of the anatomy of plants and flowers and how various elements function and fit together informs my approach to building sculpture. In the making process I find I recognise fresh associations when observing how one element of an object might connect with another and so make decisions about how to proceed. The dynamics of shape, pattern and material together with curiosity about the world around us and finding imaginative connections between these starting points, is the basis of my work.