​Drawing on personal experience to interweave themes of site, place and emotional situations my current work explores the ephemeral world of water and sky through the ‘porthole/portal’ of time spent sailing in Australian waters. A boat was home for a while as we circumnavigated Australia and I had the privilege of spending time in remote and isolated locations in pristine, fragile, and vulnerable ecosystems. My current body of works uses the porthole to symbolise the boat as both a vessel of containment, reducing a vast landscape to what can be seen from the interior, and a ‘portal’ to other worlds and places.