Artist Statement 

I am a British-Italian female artist, based near Florence, Italy. My work communicates an original ethic for the 21st century. I seek to contribute to our urgent need for a new psychological and political Left. I started by communicating this ethic, borne of intense thought, over decades, through first poetry, then an education PhD and academic career, although I have always been haptically engaged with craft, drawing and painting. Despite writing being an art form long practiced and developed, I have recently discovered, age 50, as a result of an art world education, that only visual artistic practice can truly express what matters most to me to communicate to you. My practice has emerged as conceptual, whatever aesthetic form it is taking. In constructing the work I use light, space, shape, size, various changing materials and craft techniques. The ideas expressed materially use Hindu and Christian theology, postmodern philosophy, social science research and principles of therapy such as parts work, the drama and winner's triangle, and the inner child. I am offering people autonomy and ways to think their own thoughts. To open doors to new personal freedoms, taking us beyond our current limitations and visions of planetary collapse. My art implies compassionate futures for a world of kind, coping, secure, spiritual, interdependent beings: a future I think is coming. I use whatever might be needed to express an idea and regularly change medium. What I create is an electrical conduit to ignite the viewer's heart and mind, on their own terms.