I have always been curious about "Place and Travel" .My journeys began at an early age and this insatiable curiosity about cultures
and travel has given me the main focus of my work. Social justice and working with various communities from victims of domestic
abuse to prisoners, seniors and people with learning and physical difficulties in the UK and the USA. Various residencies e.g. Spain, Wales,
England, Nigeria and the States of Idaho, Utah, Nevada, S.Carolina, Delaware and the State of Maryland have resulted in social engaged Projects.  

The works in these series show earlier work which still has some significance in the development of present work. Materials and new technology is important. In "Dowry Brides" shown some years ago at the Delaware Centre for Contemporary Arts I worked with the
Indian Community (India).The work shows a young girl of 12 years old forced to marry an older man. These practices are still carried on 
in several parts of the world. The advertisement for marriage and the emphasis on  skin colour, family background is an important part of the advertisements for marriage.




  The slave trade of slaves from Ghana across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World in the early 1900s resulted in some work.
included too are the series of the "Comfort Women" created in the late 90s.  
  The Japanese Government as recently apologized for this outrageous acts and this news has only recently made headlines.
  These works although executed several years ago are included to illustrate the development in my work. The work is mixed media using clay, wax, fabric, text and stitch.


A residency in Vermont shows work that evolved after the exhibition "Dowry Brides" and is an extension of the work i.e. "Tunnel of Fire"
which alludes to the wives throwing themselves on the pry when the husband dies. It also depicts imprisonment. The colour red signifies passion,anger, pain.