Colour
Memory
Gesture
Expressive paintings, photographs and projects exploring memory, light, place and feeling.
INSIDE MEMORY
A new body of installation work is being displayed next week for my MA Fine Art exhibition at the University of Brighton.
Inside Memory, 2026, is a participatory, sensory installation exploring how memories are formed, stored and recalled. Through light, colour, shadow, sound and scent, fragments of remembered experience emerge and dissolve, inviting visitors to move through a landscape where perception and memory intertwine.
Visitors are invited to move within the space, relax and absorb the sensory input or play with torches and make shadows with and of others.
Drawing on personal recollections while reflecting universal experiences of remembering, the installation considers how moments, places and emotions remain within us long after they have passed.
University of Brighton, Grand Parade, Brighton BN2 0JY
Saturday 4 - Saturday 11 July 2026
Weekdays 10 am - 5 pm
Weekends 12 pm - 4 pm
The Button Box / The Mothers
Inherited button boxes provide the starting point for an exploration of maternal lineage, memory and material history.
What began as a deeply personal exploration has unexpectedly become a shared one. Conversations around button boxes, inherited objects and family rituals have prompted people to tell stories of their own, revealing how domestic objects can become powerful vessels for memory, identity and connection.
Gathered around a table of family heirlooms and handwritten fragments, visitors are invited into a space shaped by the presence of women who are no longer here, yet remain woven into the fabric of everyday life.
Part archive, part conversation, the installation celebrates the stories carried within ordinary things and asks what we choose to hold on to, and why.
Please join me at the University of Brighton Summer Show sit around the table and tell me your memories.
See above for details on visiting the show.
MA FINE ART
A glimpse into my postgraduate research and experimental work. Follow the ideas, installations and projects evolving during my MA Fine Art at the University of Brighton.
Timeline is created from two books that belonged to my mother - a 1940s collection of children’s plays and a book of poetry. Reworked as part of the Refacing Books project with the Materials Histories Research Group at the University of Brighton, it is on display in the Grand Parade Atrium.
COMING UP
I am delighted to be taking part in Arundel Gallery Trail this August, as part of the collective of 10 artists showing at Brooklands Barn.
More info and an invitation to the preview event will be coming in my next newsletter. Sign up below ...
Indgo Blues Lara Bowen, 2026, oil on canvas
WORKSHOPS
Small, relaxed studio sessions exploring colour, mark-making and creative process.
Join me in the studio for hands-on workshops experimenting with paint, materials and ideas.
More dates coming soon ...