Through my practice, I share the ideas and processes that shape the work, revealing the worlds and layered imagery within each piece. Observation, narrative, and imagination intersect, inviting closer looking, sparking conversation, and encouraging you to linger, reflect, and imagine your own connection to the work.

Writing

Victorian Visions

Victorian Visions

Dreaming Backwards Victorian Visions emerges from a fascination with looking backwards as a way of seeing differently. The series is rooted in the visual language of Victorian photography.  A time...

Victorian Visions

Dreaming Backwards Victorian Visions emerges from a fascination with looking backwards as a way of seeing differently. The series is rooted in the visual language of Victorian photography.  A time...

On Collecting, and the Life of Things

On Collecting, and the Life of Things

Fragments of Other WorldsStep into my studio, and you encounter fragments of other worlds, quietly gathered and carefully arranged in their own spaces. Drawers of postcards, photographs, shelves of feathers,...

On Collecting, and the Life of Things

Fragments of Other WorldsStep into my studio, and you encounter fragments of other worlds, quietly gathered and carefully arranged in their own spaces. Drawers of postcards, photographs, shelves of feathers,...

Fragment Studies

Fragment Studies

Fragment Studies Breaking the Image Apart Fragment Studies moves toward reduction, focus, and restraint. After working through layered worlds and activated surfaces, this series pares the image back to essential...

Fragment Studies

Fragment Studies Breaking the Image Apart Fragment Studies moves toward reduction, focus, and restraint. After working through layered worlds and activated surfaces, this series pares the image back to essential...

Drawing on Language

Drawing on Language

Drawing on Language: Curiosity, Mischief, and the Body A Curious Act of Interruption These drawings began with an instinctive pull toward the dictionary page, a surface traditionally associated with authority,...

Drawing on Language

Drawing on Language: Curiosity, Mischief, and the Body A Curious Act of Interruption These drawings began with an instinctive pull toward the dictionary page, a surface traditionally associated with authority,...

Between Worlds

Between Worlds

Working in the In-Between For me, retreating into a created world is a luxury, one to be explored down a rabbit warren of investigation. The Between Worlds series draws from...

Between Worlds

Working in the In-Between For me, retreating into a created world is a luxury, one to be explored down a rabbit warren of investigation. The Between Worlds series draws from...

Playful 6 watercolour painting by Maria Pelton showing colourful creature inspired by mythic cave art

Creatures of Character

Born from Curiosity and Fear I have always been fascinated by bugs and insects, ever since I was a child. This fascination was both thrilling and a little frightening. I...

Creatures of Character

Born from Curiosity and Fear I have always been fascinated by bugs and insects, ever since I was a child. This fascination was both thrilling and a little frightening. I...